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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

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Sophocles
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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
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