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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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Everywhere
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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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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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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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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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True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
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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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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Who seeks shall find.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.
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