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Sophocles
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When trouble ends even troubles please.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
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Success is the reward for toil.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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The gods love those of ordered soul.
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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
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For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
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Always desire to learn something useful
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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It is best to live anyhow, as one may do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
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For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
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Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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