I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
SOPHOCLESMen of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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