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Obedience to authority saves many skins
Sophocles
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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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To me no profitable speech sounds ill.
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Great Time makes all things dim.
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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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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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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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A human being is only breath and shadow.
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A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
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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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It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
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Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
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If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
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How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
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Now let the weeping cease Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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