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- Stranger in a strange country.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus at Colonus
- The good befriend themselves.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus at Colonus
- One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus at Colonus
- It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus at Colonus
- Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Creusa
- To him who is in fear everything rustles.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Acrisius
- No man loves life like him that's growing old.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Acrisius
- Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
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