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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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Antigone

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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
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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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Now let the weeping cease Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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What men have seen they know. . . .
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Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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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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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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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
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