It 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.
Sophocles
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old.
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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
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Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
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Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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No honest man will argue on every side
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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always
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There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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Let every man in mankind's frailty Consider his last day; and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.
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