Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
SOPHOCLESWealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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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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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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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.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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