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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

Sophocles
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
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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
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We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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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
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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.

Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
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To speak much is one thing

to speak to the point another!
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