No honest man will argue on every side.
SOPHOCLESAll men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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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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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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