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Trouble Quotes by Sophocles
- It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
- One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
- If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
- Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
- If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
- Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.
- When trouble ends even troubles please.
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