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Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

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Sophocles
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Kolonos
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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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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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
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Obedience to authority saves many skins
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Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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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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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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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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Who seeks shall find.
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
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