"Only a madman would give good for evil"
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"High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief."
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"Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?"
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"It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory."
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"A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine."
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"There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains."
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"Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury."
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"The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward."
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"In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great."
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"Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes."
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"How dark are all the ways of god to man!"
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"Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal."
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"If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing."
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"Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure."
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"Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman."
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"He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep."
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"That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time."
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"Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable."
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"I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief"
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"Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory."
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