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• The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. -- Sophocle
• Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.
• How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
  Still to ourselves in every place ensigned Our own felicity we make or find. -- Samuel Johnso...
• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
• We once were as you are. Spears and arrows. There came a time when our weapons grew faster than our wisdom, and we almost destroyed ourselves.
  We learned from this to make a rule during all our travels never to cause the same to happen to other worlds ....
• Time eases all things. -- Sophocles (406 BC)
• Anything I make can become a cause for my sorrow.
• All of our best and oldest legends recognize that time passes and that people grow old and die.
  -- Alan Moore, The Dark Knight Retu...
• If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
  -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Scyrii, Frag. 510...