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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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Many
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Men

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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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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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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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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother my sisters are the Seasons my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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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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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.
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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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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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God's dice always have a lucky roll.
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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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Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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