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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

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Sophocles
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When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
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The gods love those of ordered soul.
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The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
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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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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 my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
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More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
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