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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
Knowing
Anything
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Life
Sweetest

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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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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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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
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