Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.


Sophocles

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There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money.
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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
UNKNOWN
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
There is nothing around me but money, money, money.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY
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EDDIE MONEY
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EDDIE MONEY
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EDDIE MONEY
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EDDIE MONEY
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JOHN MONEY
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JOHN MONEY
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EDDIE MONEY
We intend to file our appeal brief with the Court of First Instance [in Luxembourg] next week,
MONEY MAGAZINE
The remedy is to have the five major domestic U.S. manufacturers disgorge the illegal profits that t...
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Goodbye, and good luck with your stupid and insulting ad campaign,
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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY
I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
EDDIE MONEY
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EDDIE MONEY
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EDDIE MONEY
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EDDIE MONEY
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DON MONEY
That's why we picked him up this year. We needed some pop.
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DON MONEY
He went right after the hitters.
DON MONEY
Theoretically there is always room for a settlement,
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LYNN MONEY
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BRUTON SMITH
It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in...
DADA BHAGWAN
Nothing seems to bring on an emergency as quickly as putting money aside in case of one.
UNKNOWN
As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.
KATARINA BIVALD
Success and money have nothing in common.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
BO DEREK
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Money comes after the world, but it rules the world. It's all about money yo!
EPHDAN
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want...
SAMUEL BUTLER
People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.
MEEK MILL
I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
DAVID A. SIEGEL
God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's a...
RICHARD MATHESON
In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Money alone sets all the world in motion
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Time is Eternal. Time is what governs us our existence whether in space or hear, so how can time be ...
GARY F EVANS...
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really ea...
ARSENE WENGER
They've made so much money in technology, they're taking some money off the table.
DONALD DION
There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Nothing wrong with making money.
ADAM LEVINE
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LISA BEDRICK
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GERALD ARCHIBALD
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G.K. CHESTERTON
Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothin...
DAVID OGILVY
The fellow who has no money is poor; the fellow who has nothing but money is poorer still.
UNKNOWN
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
BILLY SUNDAY
The love of money grows as money grows.
UNKNOWN
Theres still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology,
BOB SPITZ
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
SALVADOR DALI
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
SALVADOR DALí
This was about money, the oldest motive in the world.
TOM O'CONNOR
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ANUJ SOMANY
The world is so much busy of making money, and love doesn't make them happy!
BRADLEY B. DALINA
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MANOJ ARORA
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HARUKI MURAKAMI
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
PAUL NEWMAN
Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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SAMUEL BUTLER
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB
Nothing but Money,Is sweeter than Honey
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
This had nothing to do with money.
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JUSTINIAN G
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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
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Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
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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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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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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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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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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,
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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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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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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;
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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
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.
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