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Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

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Sophocles
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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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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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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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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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