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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

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Sophocles
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.
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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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Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
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To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.
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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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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
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When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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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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Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.
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For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
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Kids are anchors of mothers' life
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