Critias quotes
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“Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.”
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“For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.”
-- Critias -
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“Is not living at all not better than living badly?”
-- CritiasSource : Fragment, quoted in H Diels and W Kranz (eds) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1952), vol.2, 385, no.23.
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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”
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