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Sophocles
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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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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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
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