To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
SOPHOCLESA short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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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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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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