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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
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It is best to live anyhow, as one may do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
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Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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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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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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Not even Ares battles against necessity.
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Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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God's dice always have a lucky roll.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
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