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.
SOPHOCLESIt is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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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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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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