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Sophocles


Ancient Greek playwright, dramatist, priest, and politician of Athens.
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Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.




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Our ship of fate, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last.
Sophocles
For kindness begets kindness evermore,
But he from whose mind fades the memory
Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
Sophocles
The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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