Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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Despair often breeds disease.
Sophocles

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
Sophocles

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Evil counsel travels fast.
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Evil gains work their punishment.
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
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For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
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For the dead there are no more toils.
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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
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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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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
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God's dice always have a lucky roll.
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
Sophocles

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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