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“It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.”
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone“We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.”
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus“I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.”
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus“Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are rightTo warn me against losing mine. I cannot say—I hope that I shall never want to say!— that youHave reasoned badly. Yet there are other menWho can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful.You are not in a position to know everythingThat people say or do, or what they feel:Your temper terrifies them—everyoneWill tell you only what you like to hear.”
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