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Sophocles

"Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief?"

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"Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief?"

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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"

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"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

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"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."

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"Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity."

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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."

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"Let thy true religion be to act right."

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"It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good."

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

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"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

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"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

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"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

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"Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he may yet become my foe?"

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"Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty."

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

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"For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty."

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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

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"The only crime is pride."

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