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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

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Gratitude, Giving, Birth

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Not even Ares battles against necessity.

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Battle

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The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

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Learning, Men, Intuition

Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

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Anger, Heart, Stones

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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

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Country, Thinking, Important

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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

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Communication, Winning, Men

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It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

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Happiness, Fate, Giving

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

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Fortune, Tyranny, Humans

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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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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Men, Enemy

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A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

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Driven, Broads

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No oath can be too binding for a lover.

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Lovers, Oath, Binding

"Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 848,

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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

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Sweet, Forget, Short Time

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There is no greater evil than anarchy.

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Evil, Anarchy, Anarchism

Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (2016). “The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides”, p.301, Modern Library

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From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

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Men, Suffering, Has Beens

Sophocles (2008). “Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra”, p.112, OUP Oxford

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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

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Mind, Suffering, One Day

Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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Care, Deeds

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To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

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Fear, Men, He Man

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Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

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Conceited, Judging, Speak

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Truth is always straightforward.

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Truth, Truth Is, Straightforward

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The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

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Ignorance, Men, Evil

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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

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Fall, Gambling, Dice

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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

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Men, Shadow, Breaths

Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

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Evil

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No lie ever reaches old age.

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Birthday, Lying, Age

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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

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Good Night, Thousand, Wells

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Born: 498 BC
Died: 406 BC
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