Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
SOPHOCLESKindness gives birth to kindness.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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The good befriend themselves.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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