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| "Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness." |
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| "Medea, I order you to leace my territories an exile, and take along with you your two children, and not to waste time doing it. It is my decree, and I will see it done." |
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| "No one can be said to be happy until he is dead" |
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| "They take no heed of the holy foundations of Justice, who in silence marks what happens and what has been, and who in course of time comes without fail to exact penatly" |
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| "Against these plans none stood save I: I dared. I rescued men from shattering desrtuction that you have carried them to "Hades' house and therefor I am tortured on this rock..." |
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| nothing left to see, to live for, enjoy |
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| we have secrets no one else knows |
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| "there is no royal road to Geometry" |
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| "I shall still prove that, of the numbers named in th {Principles} some exceed in multitude the number of sand which is equal in magnitude to the shpere referred to, provided the following assumptions made..." |
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| "Our system is called a democracy, for it respects the majority and not the few..." |
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| "For great and glorious is a man defending hom and children and his wedded wife against the enemy." |
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| "With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art." |
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| hope my son is better than I am |
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| men of Athens, time to battle |
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| These geusts are above you, know your place |
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| Patience is what I've learned from pain |
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| All I want to do is get home |
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| man is mortal and must curb his pride |
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| You say you see, but you're still blind |
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| "Noble is he who falls in front of battle bravely fighting for his native land" |
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| "Medicine is of all the Arts most noble but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts." |
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| "In the course of that fight Leonidas fell, having fought like a man indeed" |
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| "Whatever this master commands, they do; and his command never varies: it is to never retreat in battle, however great the odds, but always to stand firm, and to conquer or die" |
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| "Xerxes was not at all angry with Demaratus' answer. He turned it off with a laugh and good-humouredly let him go." |
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| "Some Thracian strutteth with my shield, For, being somewhat flurried, I left it by a wayside bush, as from the field I hurried" |
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| "To avow poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it." |
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| "{ships may be} the finest sight on earth; but I say that whatever one loves, is" |
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| "one medicine, my friend, alone is fit - wine -, and get drunk on it" |
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| "At Fate's own moment snaps his thread of life" |
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| "A line is a breadthless length" |
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| "It is the people themselves who in their folly seek to destroy our great city, prompted by desire of wealth; and their leaders, unjust of heart, for whom awaits the suffering of many woes, the fruit of their great ignorance since they know not how to check their greed..." |
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| "that the earth revolves about the sun...now it is easy to see that this is impossible. For, since the centre of the sphere has no magnitude, we cannot conceive it to bear any ratio whatever to the surface of the sphere." |
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| "Women are the most unfortunate creatures." |
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