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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
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Tragedy Writer
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Kolonos
Antigone
Wisdom
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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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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
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It is best to live however one can be.
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
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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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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
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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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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
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Obedience to authority saves many skins
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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
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It is not righteousness to outrage
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For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.
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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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