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Despair often breeds disease.

Sophocles

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself
There is no success without hardship.
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Hard Time One Liner Success
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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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
Opportunity has power over all things.
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One Liner Opportunity Power
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth

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