No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.


Sophocles

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No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
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A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
TUCKERMAN
No one loves the man whom he fears.
UNKNOWN
The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old
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CHARLES FIELD
Leave me to my own absurdity.
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In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep.
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Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
BIBLE
Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…
JANVIER CHOUTEU-CHANDO
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
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THOMAS J. WATSON
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
EURIPIDES
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DOROTHY ALLISON
He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods—the gods of human manufactu...
BRENNAN MANNING
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
BRENDAN BEHAN
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who c...
JANE AUSTEN
Flash'd from his bed the electric tidings came, he is no better, he is much the same.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
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THOMAS J. WATSON
When a good women loves she loves for real. When a bad woman loves she only loves your money and you...
NERISSA IRVING
The Good News is the gospel of glad-tidings.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES
The Gospel of God is glad tidings of good things.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himse...
JAMES BOSWELL
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
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ruin ar...
ANNE CARSON
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DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAK
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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WINSTON CHURCHILL
Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
ADAM DRIVER
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us
EDWARD FAIRFAX
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM
May the dead forgive me, I can do no other
But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ism...
SOPHOCLES
Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message An host of...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.
SANTOSH KALWAR
The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates.
SUZY KASSEM
I don't need a man to comfort me when I'm having a bad day. I want a man who loves me so much, that ...
JOY MANISCALCO
Each man kills the thing he loves.
OSCAR WILDE
Seagull you fly against the horizon Into a misty morning sun Seagull you must have known The shape o...
MEMBERS OF BAD COMPANY
Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
HAFEZ
Oh - You're a very bad man!"

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L. FRANK BAUM
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIR
A man may have no bad habits and have worse
MARK TWAIN
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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FULTON J. SHEEN
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ANUJ SOMANY
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ARTHUR MIDDLETON
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OSCAR WILDE
Yet each man kills the things he loves
OSCAR WILDE
And each man kills the thing he loves.
OSCAR WILDE
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I thin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man. This is a big statement and it so...
WILLIAM SAROYAN
Tidings! It’s Uncle Sevro and the Moderately Friendly Giant.
PIERCE BROWN
There's no getting around the fact that we're incurring higher costs for the insurance protection th...
MICHAEL TREVINO
Whoever beats dogs loves not man
HOUSSAYE
Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.
ST. BASIL
an articulate, intelligent man full of integrity who loves his community.
DAVID LEWIS
Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
JOHN MCAFEE
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
HOWARD THURMAN
God made man because he loves stories
YIDDISH PROVERB
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself
PLATO
May the dead forgive me, I can do no other
But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ism...
SOPHOCLES
God made man because He loves stories.
ELIE WIESEL
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ALAN PATON
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
BUDDHA
I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
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MARTIN LUTHER
I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
Every man loves what he is good at.
THOMAS SHADWELL
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved
CHARLES LAMB
Every man loves what he is good at
THOMAS SHADWELL
Did ever raven sing so like a lark That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form
ANDRE MAUROIS
Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
They just want to know that the man actually loves them.
LYNN YOUNG
They're going into this election without their standard-bearer.
FLOYD CIRULI
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
THOMAS CARLYLE
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC
A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Just Me, Just Me

Sweet Marie, she loves just me
(She also loves Maurice McGhee).
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

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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.
SOPHOCLES
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
SOPHOCLES
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.
SOPHOCLES
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SOPHOCLES
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.
SOPHOCLES
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;
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The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,...
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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
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Y...
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