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A human being is only breath and shadow.

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Sophocles
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It is best to live however one can be.
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
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Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?
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Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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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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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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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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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
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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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If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
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