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- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
- It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
- The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus Rex
- For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are all likely to go astray,
The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
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