Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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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 no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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For the dead there are no more toils.
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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To him who is in fear everything rustles.
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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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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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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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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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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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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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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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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Truth is always the strongest argument.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
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Sophocles

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