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Sophocles
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The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
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To err from the right path is common to mankind.
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I write a woman's oaths in water.
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Everything is ideal to its parent.
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
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If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
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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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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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Nobody loves life like an old man.
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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
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I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
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Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
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