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Despair often breeds disease.

Sophocles

What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself
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
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
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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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Friendship Love Myself Word
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
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time

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