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Sophocles496–406 BC

For kindness begets kindness evermore,
But he from whose mind fades the memory
Of benefits, noble is he no more.

Sophocles on charity

Ajax, Line 522–524 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)

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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Frg. 301 TrGF (Bartlett’s, 9th ed., 1892)
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Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
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Ah, son, may you prove luckier than your father, but in all else like him. Then you would not prove base.
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