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Sophocles
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Love is like ice in the hands of children.
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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
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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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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
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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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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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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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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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To err from the right path is common to mankind.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
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