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Time is a kindly God.
Sophocles
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Not even Ares battles against necessity.
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Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
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What is to be taught I learn what is to be discovered I seek what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
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If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
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