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

Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
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
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
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
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side

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