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21 " É uma vergonha para um homem almejar uma longa vida, se não conseguir libertar-se dos seus males. "
― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
22 " Shame on the wight who when beset with ill Cares to live on in misery unrelieved. "
23 " Say, can the mind be noble, where the stream Of gratitude is withered from the spring? "
24 " I pity him in his misery for all that he is my foe, because he is bound fast to a dread doom. I think of my own lot no less than his. For I see that we are phantoms, all we who live, or fleeting shadows. "
25 " I will screen my soul From reach of Pallas’ grievous wrath. "
26 " For dullards know not goodness in their hand, Nor prize the jewel till ‘tis cast away. "
27 " Tis hard for power to observe each pious rule. "