It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLESProfit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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In season, all is good.
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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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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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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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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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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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