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Knowledge must come through action.

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Sophocles
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Evil counsel travels fast.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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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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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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It is not righteousness to outrage
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It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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Everything is ideal to its parent.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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