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Sophocles
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“A man growing old becomes a child again.”
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“Not even old age knows how to love death.”
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“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”
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“To him who is in fear everything rustles.”
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“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
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“Always desire to learn something useful.”
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“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
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“Reason is God's crowning gift to man.”
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“Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”
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“Silence is an ornament for women.”
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“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
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“It is best to live however one can be.”
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“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”
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“Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.”
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“Who seeks shall find.”
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“Success is dependent on effort.”
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“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”
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“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.”
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“Evil gains work their punishment.”
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“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.”
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“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.”
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“No speech can stain what is noble by nature.”
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“It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.”
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“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”
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“When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.”
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