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• Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Hands

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• It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

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  Wisdom, Men, Wisest Man

  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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• Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

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  Long, Gains, Life Is

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• Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

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  Stewards, Thrifty, Goods

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• Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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  Sweet, Deception, Saving Money

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• No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

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  Growing, Growing Old

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• But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

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  Dark, Destiny, Might

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• For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

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  Friendship, Kindness, Return

  Sophocles (1872). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose”, p.309

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• The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

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  Past, Expectations, Joy

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• The good befriend themselves.

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  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.159, University of Chicago Press

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• There is no success without hardship.

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  Success, Congratulations, Achievement

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.177, University of Chicago Press

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• Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

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  Men, News, Likes

  Antigone l. 277. Sophocles's words are the earliest version that has been traced for the modern saying "Don't shoot the messenger."

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• Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

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  Justice, Diversity, Deeds

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

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  Men, Good Man, Tasks

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• Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

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  Grief, Grieving, Mind

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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• You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

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  Birthday, Men, Eugenics

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• Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

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  Men, Hands, Excellence

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.69, Wildside Press LLC

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• As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!

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  Eye, Sight, Soul

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• Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

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  Hard Work, Past, Today

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• Knowledge must come through action.

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  Action

  The Plays of Sophocles Trachiniae l. 589

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• There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

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  Life, Men, Judging

  "Women of Trachis". Play by Sophocles. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

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  Drinking, Book, Beer

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• Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

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  Uprising, Evil, Dying

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• When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

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  Oedipus Tyrannus, 569 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

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• Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

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  Men, World, Antigone

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

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