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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
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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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Knowledge must come through action.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Evil counsel travels fast.
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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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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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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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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For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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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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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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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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To women silence gives their proper grace.
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