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Sophocles
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To women silence gives their proper grace.
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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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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother my sisters are the Seasons my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him it cannot be shirked.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
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For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.
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Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
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What men have seen they know. . . .
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
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I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
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