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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.


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SOPHOCLES Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
SOPHOCLES For the dead there are no more toils.
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SOPHOCLES A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES Truth is always the strongest argument.
SOPHOCLES Success, remember is the reward of toil.
SOPHOCLES Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to
SOPHOCLES All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...
SOPHOCLES One word
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SOPHOCLES To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
SOPHOCLES None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES No enemy is worse than bad advice.
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SOPHOCLES There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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SOPHOCLES It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul...
SOPHOCLES In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
SOPHOCLES Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dis...
SOPHOCLES The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLES Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SOPHOCLES Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SOPHOCLES Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLES Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
SOPHOCLES The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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SOPHOCLES A man growing old becomes a child again.
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SOPHOCLES Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
SOPHOCLES A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
SOPHOCLES Who seeks shall find.
SOPHOCLES Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
SOPHOCLES Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES Success is dependent on effort.
SOPHOCLES Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLES A human being is only breath and shadow.
SOPHOCLES A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
SOPHOCLES To touch the quick.
SOPHOCLES We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
SOPHOCLES If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil than anarchy.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
SOPHOCLES All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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SOPHOCLES To revive sorrow is cruel.
SOPHOCLES Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
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SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
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SOPHOCLES Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
SOPHOCLES For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
SOPHOCLES Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
SOPHOCLES To him who is in fear everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old.
SOPHOCLES What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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SOPHOCLES Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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SOPHOCLES Time eases all things.
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
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SOPHOCLES The good befriend themselves.
SOPHOCLES Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLES One word
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SOPHOCLES It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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SOPHOCLES They command us, though they speak no words.
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SOPHOCLES It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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SOPHOCLES No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
SOPHOCLES No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
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SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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SOPHOCLES There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;
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SOPHOCLES Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
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SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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SOPHOCLES Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old
SOPHOCLES God's dice always have a lucky roll
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SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
SOPHOCLES You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
SOPHOCLES It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
SOPHOCLES Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
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