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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
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Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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It is best to live however one can be.
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The end excuses any evil.
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No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
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What men have seen they know But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Not even old age knows how to love death.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
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To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.
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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
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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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Obedience to authority saves many skins
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