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Sophocles

"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

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"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

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"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

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"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

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"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

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"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

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"Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being."

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"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing."
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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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"Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish."
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