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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

Sophocles

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Do 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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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
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
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
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
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
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
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Command Enforcement Yourself

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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