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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

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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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More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
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And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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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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When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
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For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
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Evil counsel travels fast.
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If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
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