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• Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

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  Liars, Firsts, Resolve

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.35, University of Chicago Press

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• Better not to exist than live basely.

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• A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

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  Men, Justice, Fairness

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

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  Lying, Men, Hands

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• To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

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  Men, Kind Deeds, Deeds Done

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• Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

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  Men, Chance, Should

  Sophocles (2012). “Oedipus the King”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

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  Enemy

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

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• It is best to live however one can be.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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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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  Men, Casting, Worship

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• What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.

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  Taught

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• Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.

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  Hate, Men, Mind

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Regret, Hate, Anger

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• Silence gives the proper grace to women

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  Giving, Silence, Grace

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• It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

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  Peace, War, News

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• For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

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  Friendship, Men, Harbors

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• To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

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  Anger, Judgment, Gentle

  Sophocles, Robert POTTER (Prebendary of Norwich.) (1813). “The Tragedier of Sophocles; Translated by R. Potter. A New Edition”, p.217

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• We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

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  Time, Memories, Waiting

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• To err from the right path is common to mankind.

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  Path, Common, Mankind

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC

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• To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

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  Gains, Late, Wells

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• The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

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  Rewards, Virtue, Secure

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• It is not righteousness to outrage

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  Outrage, Righteousness

  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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• Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

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  Kings, Pain, Grief

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• Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

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  Children, Justice, Limits

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• If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

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  Fool, Tales, Seems

  Sophocles (2015). “The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.174, Xist Publishing

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• For the dead there are no more toils.

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  Sympathy, Death, Dying

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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