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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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It is best to live anyhow, as one may do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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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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Now let the weeping cease Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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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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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
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Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
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