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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Sophocles

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
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Blame Fate Fortune Worst

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