Brave hearts do not back down back off.
SOPHOCLESIt is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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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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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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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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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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