If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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The good befriend themselves.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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