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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
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Tragedy Writer
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Kolonos
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Everywhere
Wise
Thinkers
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Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
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I write a woman's oaths in water.
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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
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No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
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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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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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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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What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
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Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
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Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
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If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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To him who is afraid, everything rustles.
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