It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
SOPHOCLESNo speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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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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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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