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Without labor nothing prospers.

Sophocles

Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
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
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
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
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power

Without labor nothing prospers.

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