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It is best to live however one can be.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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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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Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
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There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
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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.
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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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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
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Everything is ideal to its parent.
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When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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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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