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Evil counsel travels fast.

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Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
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Kolonos
Evil
Travels
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Fast

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Knowledge must come through action.
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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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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
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There are some who praise a man free from disease to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
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More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
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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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To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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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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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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Kids are anchors of mothers' life
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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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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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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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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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