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

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Sophocles
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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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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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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Time is a kindly God.
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The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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The gods love those of ordered soul.
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A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.
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Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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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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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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