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Knowledge must come through action.

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
Knowledge
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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Success is the reward for toil.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
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Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
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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 prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
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