"I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards-all that your can do is to have me killed."

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"I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards-all that your can do is to have me killed."

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"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"You stand the risk of bankruptcy, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

"At least I'm not afraid, and no one will ever call me boring."

"Throw a warrior to the wolves and he'll return a conqueror."

"Fear makes people speechless."

"When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence."

"When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society."

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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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