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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

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Sophocles
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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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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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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
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Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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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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The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
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Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.
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