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Knowledge must come through action.

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Sophocles
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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
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No oath can be too binding for a lover.
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Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
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The end excuses any evil.
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What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
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It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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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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Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
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It is best to live anyhow, as one may do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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Great Time makes all things dim.
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For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
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