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Sophocles
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It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Now let the weeping cease Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
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Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
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There are some who praise a man free from disease to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
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No oath can be too binding for a lover.
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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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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
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Time is a kindly God.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Do nothing secretly for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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