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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Sophocles
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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Great Time makes all things dim.
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
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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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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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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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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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