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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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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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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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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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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
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Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
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Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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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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We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
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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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