A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
SOPHOCLESNone love the messenger who brings bad news.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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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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Stranger in a strange country.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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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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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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