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God's dice always have a lucky roll.

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Sophocles
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Tragedy Writer
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Kolonos
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Lucky
Always

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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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It is best to live anyhow, as one may do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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What men have seen they know. . . .
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And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
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Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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Love is like ice in the hands of children.
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Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
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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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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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