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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

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Sophocles
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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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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For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
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It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
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Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
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It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.
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To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
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The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
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Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.
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For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
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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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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
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Great Time makes all things dim.
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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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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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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