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Sophocles
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
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Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
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Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
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A human being is only breath and shadow.
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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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Nobody loves life like an old man.
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It is not righteousness to outrage
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To me no profitable speech sounds ill.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
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Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
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What is to be taught I learn what is to be discovered I seek what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
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Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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It is best to live anyhow, as one may do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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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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