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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

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Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

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When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

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The force of necessity is irresistible.

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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

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Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.

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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

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Truth is always the first casualty of war.

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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

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The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

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Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

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ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

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For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

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Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

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In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

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