"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
"Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries."
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Source: Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.39, Harvard University Press
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