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When trouble ends even troubles please.

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Sophocles
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Tragedy Writer
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Kolonos
Troubles
Please
Trouble
Ends
Even

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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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We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
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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 my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
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To err from the right path is common to mankind.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
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Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
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Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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No oath can be too binding for a lover.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother my sisters are the Seasons my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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