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Sophocles
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It is not righteousness to outrage
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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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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I write a woman's oaths in water.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
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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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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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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
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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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The end excuses any evil.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him it cannot be shirked.
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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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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Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
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