Sophocles - Antigone

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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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