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A human being is only breath and shadow.

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Sophocles
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Great Time makes all things dim.
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Nobody loves life like an old man.
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Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
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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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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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It is best to live however one can be.
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Not even Ares battles against necessity.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
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