Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
SOPHOCLESA short saying often contains much wisdom.
More Sophocles Quotes
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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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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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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