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"There is a point at which even justice does injury." Sophocles Sophocles
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Greek Poet    Justice   

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"No enemy is worse than bad advice." Sophocles Sophocles
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Advice    Greek Poet   

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"Wisdom outweighs any wealth." Sophocles Sophocles
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Greek Poet    Wealth   

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"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words." Sophocles Sophocles
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Greek Poet    Wisdom   

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"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way." Sophocles Sophocles
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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good." Sophocles Sophocles
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Enemies    Greek Poet   

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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man." Sophocles Sophocles
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Greek Poet    Man   

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"To him who is in fear everything rustles." Sophocles Sophocles
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Fear    Greek Poet   

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"It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it." Sophocles Sophocles
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Adversity    Trouble   

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"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task." Sophocles Sophocles
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"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest." Sophocles Sophocles
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Gifts    Greek Poet   

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"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth." Sophocles Sophocles
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Greek Poet    Merit   

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"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best." Sophocles Sophocles
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Greek Poet    Past   

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"For the dead there are no more toils." Sophocles Sophocles
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"A short saying often contains much wisdom." Sophocles Sophocles
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"Kindness gives birth to kindness." Sophocles Sophocles
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Birth    Kindness   

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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely." Sophocles
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"Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always." Sophocles
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"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere." Sophocles
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"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception." Sophocles
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"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all." Sophocles
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