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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

~Sophocles

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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

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No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

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If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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