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.
SOPHOCLESHow dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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The good befriend themselves.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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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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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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