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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
From Oedipus Rex
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Who seeks shall find.
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A lie never grows old.
From White Lies
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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
From Antigone
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Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
From Electra
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What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted
A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,
Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we
Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.
Death is the end of all.
Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight
And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.
From Oedipus at Colonus
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Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
From Antigone
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Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?
From Electra
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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
From Antigone
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
From Oedipus Rex
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Who seeks shall find.
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A lie never grows old.
From White Lies
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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
From Antigone
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Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
From Electra
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What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted
A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,
Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we
Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.
Death is the end of all.
Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight
And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.
From Oedipus at Colonus
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Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
From Antigone
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Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?
From Electra
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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
From Antigone
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
From Oedipus Rex
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Who seeks shall find.
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A lie never grows old.
From White Lies
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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
From Antigone
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Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
From Electra
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What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted
A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,
Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we
Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.
Death is the end of all.
Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight
And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.
From Oedipus at Colonus
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Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
From Antigone
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Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?
From Electra
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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
From Antigone
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
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