Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

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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 drink.

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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

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Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

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Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

Sophocles in Trachiniae
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles in Creusa
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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

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