Reason is God's crowning gift to man. Sophocles

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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

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Sophocles

Profession: Poet
Nationality: Greek

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There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful save by trial.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made.

Even in these straits our life is not as pitiful as you'd think, so long as we find joy in every hour.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Tell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.

The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Shall we not perish wretchedest of all, If in defiance of the law we cross A monarch's will?—weak women, think of that, Not framed by nature to contend with men. Remember.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

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