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Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

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Sophocles
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
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For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.
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