One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLESDo 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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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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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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Stranger in a strange country.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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