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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

~Sophocles

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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

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For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

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It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

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Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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