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• Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

  Sophocles

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Kindness gives birth to kindness.

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  Inspirational, Kindness, Giving

  Sophocles, Robert POTTER (Prebendary of Norwich.) (1813). “The Tragedier of Sophocles; Translated by R. Potter. A New Edition”, p.260

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• Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

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  Opportunity, Captains, Endeavor

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• The happiest life is to be without thought

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  Life Is

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• There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Tears

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• Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

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  Found You, Literature, Found

  Sophocles (2012). “Oedipus the King”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

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  Growing, Growing Old

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• Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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  Past, Born

  Oedipus Coloneus l. 1225

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• How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

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  Wise, Men, Oedipus

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  "Creusa". Play by Sophocles, fragment 323,

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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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  Next, Birth, Reckoning

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• Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

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  Inspirational, Expression, Fewer

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• Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

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  Long, Gains, Life Is

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• Without labor nothing prospers.

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  Motivational, Work, Labor

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• Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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  Sweet, Deception, Saving Money

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• Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

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  Self Reliance, Atman, Helping

  "Japan's Diplomacy: Ensuring Security and Prosperity". Speech by Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan, japan.kantei.go.jp. June 30, 2009.

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• Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

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  Silence, Ornaments, Silence Is

  "Ajax". 293,

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• Who seeks shall find.

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  Inspirational, Motivational

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.12, Sophocles

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• Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

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  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 685,

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• None love the messenger who brings bad news.

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  Love, News, Messengers

  Sophocles (2012). “Antigone”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

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  Nurse, Evil, Soul

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• Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

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  Army, Men, Space

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• A fearful man is always hearing things.

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  Men, Hearing Things, Hearing

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• Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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  Happiness, Happy, Way

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.69, University of Chicago Press

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• Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

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  Wise, Thinker

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