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It is best to live however one can be.

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
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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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For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
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The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
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There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
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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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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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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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