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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
Much
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No oath can be too binding for a lover.
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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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For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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I write a woman's oaths in water.
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Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?
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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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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
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What you can't enforce, do not command.
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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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To him who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
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Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.
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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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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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