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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

Sophocles

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom

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