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Ignorant menDont know what good they hold in their hands untilTheyve flung it away.
-Sophocles
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I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
-Sophocles
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Action(s)
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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
-Sophocles
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Advice
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No enemy is worse than bad advice.
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Appreciation
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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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Conscience
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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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Death
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For the dead there are no more toils.
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Fear
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To him who is in fear everything rustles.
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Forgiveness
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
-Sophocles
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Gambling (Gaming)
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
-Sophocles
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Goodness
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
-Sophocles
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Honor
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Independence
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
-Sophocles
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Judging, Judgment
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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
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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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Knowledge
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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.
-Sophocles
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
-Sophocles
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Leadership
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
-Sophocles
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Life
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Love
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
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News
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None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
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Potential
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Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
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Proverbial Wisdom
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Purpose
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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