SOPHOCLES.
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Chorus. 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,
ΤΕΛΕΥΤΗ
