Someone asked Sophocles, “How is your sex-life now? Are you still able to have a woman?” He replied, “Hush, man; most gladly indeed am I rid of it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.”
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once / have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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How terrible is wisdom when / it brings no profit to the man that’s wise!
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Is anyone in all the world / Safe from unhappiness?
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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In season, all is good.
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Great Time makes all things dim.
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Time is a kindly God.
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The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, / most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
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When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.
