What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
SOPHOCLESKindness gives birth to kindness.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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