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Sophocles
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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The end excuses any evil.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.
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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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Not all things are to be discovered many are better concealed.
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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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Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
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Time is a kindly God.
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Everything is ideal to its parent.
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