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Not all things are to be discovered many are better concealed.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Kolonos
Better
Many
Things
Concealed
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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