Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLESFortune never helps the fainthearted.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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