A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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SophoclesSophocles And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
SophoclesSophocles A lie never lives to be old.
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SophoclesSophocles Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
SophoclesSophocles Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
SophoclesSophocles You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SophoclesSophocles Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
SophoclesSophocles I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
SophoclesSophocles A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
SophoclesSophocles The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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