Sophocles quote: "إن الأصوات قد ترتفع بتهديدات فارغة أثناء الغضب دون جدوى، ولكنها سرعان ما تختفي عندما تهدأ العقول ويتحكم المرء في غضبه."

There is no success without hardship.
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Ignorant menDont know what good they hold in their hands untilTheyve flung it away.
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I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
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For the dead there are no more toils.
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to ...
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven ...
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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Truth is always the strongest argument.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...
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One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
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To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
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None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
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Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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No enemy is worse than bad advice.
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as...
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating
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Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law
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When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, <...
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul...
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In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dis...
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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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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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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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 ...
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Success is dependent on effort.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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A human being is only breath and shadow.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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To touch the quick.
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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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If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.
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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
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There is no greater evil than anarchy.
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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
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Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
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There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,
When it finds its nest left empt and little o...
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
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The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all li...
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Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest d...
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To revive sorrow is cruel.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
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Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...
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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
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For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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To him who is in fear everything rustles.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old.
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big w...
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Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until ...
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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
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Time eases all things.
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
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The good befriend themselves.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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The end excuses any evil.
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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
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Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
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The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are ...
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To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by i...
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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
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To a man who is afraid everything rustles.
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Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass life's goal.
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They command us, though they speak no words.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong
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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it f...
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words a...
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There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try
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It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
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In a just cause it is right to be confident
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust
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It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has mad...
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by th...
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news
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There are many wonderful things, but none is more wonderful than man
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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right,...
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Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn
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No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforw...
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would b...
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
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To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
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Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
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Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew ...
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No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
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No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
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Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger
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There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;
States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins...
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The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,...
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AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.

ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuv...
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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...
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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to ...
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best li...
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a ...
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Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
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The only crime is pride.
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom
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No honest man will argue on every side
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There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Time is a kindly God
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
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It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old
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God's dice always have a lucky roll
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Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends
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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
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It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
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Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
B...
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great wor...
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Reason is God's crowning gift to a man...
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Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man; the storm gray sea
Y...
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إن الأصوات قد ترتفع بتهديدات فارغة أثناء الغضب دون جدوى، ولكنها سرعان ما تختفي عندما تهدأ العقول ويتحكم المرء في غضبه.

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إن الأصوات قد ترتفع بتهديدات فارغة أثناء الغضب دون جدوى، ولكنها سرعان ما تختفي عندما تهدأ العقول ويتحكم المرء في غضبه.

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