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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

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Sophocles
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Tragedy Writer
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Kolonos
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Idea
Ideas
Men

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No oath can be too binding for a lover.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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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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Success is the reward for toil.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
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Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.
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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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Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
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If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
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Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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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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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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