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There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
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All that is and shall be,
And all the past, is his [Zeus's].
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But all your strength is weakness itself against The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were and shall be Forever, beyond man utterly.
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Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.
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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
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Our ship of state, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last.
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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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For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Sophocles
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Born:
497 BC
Died:
406 BC
(aged 91)
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