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None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Action Fancy Knowledge Test Trial Yourself
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Learning Man Mindset Shame Thinking Wisdom
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
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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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
The good befriend themselves.
SOPHOCLES

Acceptance Friendship Goodness
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
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

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