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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
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
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
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Friendship Stubborn Stupidity
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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God Himself Love Rule Stand Wisdom
I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Healing One Liner Ourselves Sorrow Time
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom

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