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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

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Sophocles
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What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
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What men have seen they know But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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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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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
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If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
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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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To me no profitable speech sounds ill.
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When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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