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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

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Sophocles
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The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
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When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
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When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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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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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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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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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
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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 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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For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.
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Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.
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Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
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One's own escape from troubles makes one glad but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
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Do nothing secretly for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
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