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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.

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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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The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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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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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Love is like ice in the hands of children.
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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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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
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I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
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The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.
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When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.
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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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