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Obedience to authority saves many skins
Sophocles
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Sophocles
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When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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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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