A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLESDespair often breeds disease.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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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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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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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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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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