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Knowledge must come through action.

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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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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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
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Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
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The end excuses any evil.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Great Time makes all things dim.
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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
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It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
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