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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

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Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Kolonos
Much
Fewer
Expression
Goes
Wisdom
Words
Often
Inspirational

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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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Each one of us must live the life God gives him it cannot be shirked.
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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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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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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
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Love is like ice in the hands of children.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
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Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
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Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
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God's dice always have a lucky roll.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
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