Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
SOPHOCLESDon’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
More Sophocles Quotes
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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