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Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert

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Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes.Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

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Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to...more

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Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.

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Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, mi...more

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But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

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Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, a...more

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It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.