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"Time as he grows old teaches all things."
By Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
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"The descent to Hades is the same from every place."
By Anaxagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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"Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."
By Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
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"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
By Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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"Time eases all things."
By Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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"The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are all likely to go astray,
The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach."
By Sophocles, Antigone
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise."
By Sophocles, Antigone
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"The good befriend themselves."
By Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable."
By Sophocles, Creusa
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"To him who is in fear everything rustles."
By Sophocles, Acrisius
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"Time cancels young pain."
By Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
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"There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man."
By Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
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"There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience."
By Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
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"The day is for honest men, the night for thieves."
By Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
By Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
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"The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate."
By Euripides, Aegeus
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"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."
By Euripides, Aeolus
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"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."
By Euripides, Phrixus
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"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."
By Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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"There are two sides to every question."
By Protagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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