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The Tricks of Truth
Truth is a firm foundation of which we place many if not all of our beliefs. Without truth we have nothing to base our words or our actions on. Therefore out search for truth in life is our most important goal. Truth itself is a great goal to move towards, but even more important is to know the truth about ones own self. Aristotle taught that knowing the truth about ones self is the highest truth. Clearly borrowing from this idea was Sophocles in his play "Oedipus Rex." In the play the main character, Oedipus, is on a search for the truth about the murderer of King Laios, in the process he begins to become easily angered which seems to contradict his normally pompous and well tempered attitude, however he does not know that this truth will also reveal the truth about himself, or the ultimate truth.
A horrible plague is set on the city of Thebes because of the murder of King Laios twenty years earlier, and it was up to the city to take revenge on the......

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