It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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SophoclesSophocles Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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SophoclesSophocles If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
SophoclesSophocles I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SophoclesSophocles Stranger in a strange country.
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SophoclesSophocles Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
SophoclesSophocles What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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