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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

Sophocles

Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
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
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
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
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself

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