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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

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Sophocles
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Tragedy Writer
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Kolonos
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Life
Sweetest
Knowing
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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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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All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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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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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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The end excuses any evil.
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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To women silence gives their proper grace.
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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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Time is a kindly God.
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Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
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Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
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