There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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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
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SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
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SOPHOCLES It is not righteousness to outrage
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SOPHOCLES To him who is in fear everything rustles.
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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.
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