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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Sophocles
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
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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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And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
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Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
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If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
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It is best to live however one can be.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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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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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Always desire to learn something useful
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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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Kids are anchors of mothers' life
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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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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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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