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It is best to live however one can be.

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Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Kolonos
Inspirational
Best
Live
Suicide
However
Healthy
Motivational

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For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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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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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother my sisters are the Seasons my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
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True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills
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