"Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day." - Sophocles, The Oedipus Plays
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either." - Sophocles, Antigone
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"Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practice villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price." - Sophocles, Antigone
