All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
SOPHOCLESWho seeks shall find.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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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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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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