Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
SOPHOCLESWoman, to women silence is the best ornament.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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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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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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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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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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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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