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Them Quotes by Sophocles
- Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
- A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
- Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
- If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
- More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
- Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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