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61 " Only a fool could be in love with death. "
― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
62 " Cling not to one mood, And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong.For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him,That he alone can speak or think alright,Such oracles are empty breath when tried. The wisest man will let himself be swayedBy other's wisdom and relax in time. "
63 " To err is common To all men, but the man who having erredHugs not his errors, but repents and seeksThe cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise. "
64 " I pleasure those whom I would liefest please. "
65 " I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory. "
66 " The blind man cannot move without a guide "
67 " No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over? "
68 " Unnatural silence signifies no good. "
69 " he came to know the god intimately and the strange mad flower of his mind dripped in the dark "
70 " You chose to live, I chose to die. "
71 " For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery "
72 " A State for one man is no State at all. "
73 " I know not, but strained silence, so I deem,IS no less ominous than excessive grief. "
74 " What a splendid king you'd make of a desert island - you and you alone. "
75 " A friend in word is never friend of mine. "
76 " When misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit "
77 " There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death--who knows?--may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death. "
78 " I don't even exist—I'm no one. Nothing. "
79 " The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through. "
80 " The working of the mind discover oftDark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act.More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime. "