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“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“We were ruinous together . . . But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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