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SOPHOCLES. The chiefest element of happiness

Is wisdom. No impious words address

To the gods, commit no impious deed.

Big words from men presumptuous only breed

Tribulation and trouble and sorrow intense:

They are punished with blows,

And the fool never knows

Till, chastened, he ’s taught in old age good sense,