To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
("Oedipus Rex")
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Better not to exist than live basely.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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What is God singing in his profound Delphi of gold and shadow?
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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