The tyrant is a child of pride.
SOPHOCLESLove, you mock us for your sport.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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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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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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