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When trouble ends even troubles please.

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Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Kolonos
Troubles
Please
Trouble
Ends
Even

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Not all things are to be discovered many are better concealed.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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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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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
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To err from the right path is common to mankind.
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