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When trouble ends even troubles please.

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Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Kolonos
Trouble
Ends
Even
Troubles
Please

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True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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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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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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What men have seen they know. . . .
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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
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Evil gains work their punishment.
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Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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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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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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