Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.


Sophocles

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wisdom is the cause for rigid happiness.
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Leave me to my own absurdity.
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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating
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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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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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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
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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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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
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To revive sorrow is cruel.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
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Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
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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
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
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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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Time eases all things.
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
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The good befriend themselves.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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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
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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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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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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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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news
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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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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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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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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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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger
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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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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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