Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles in Trachiniae
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Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: ""Thou shalt not ration justice.""

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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

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To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

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Do not worry you will wed your mother, for many mortals already have lain with their mothers in dreams.

Sophocles in Oedipus the King (429 B.C.), translated by J.E. Thomas
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Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

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