Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLESLaziness is the mother of all evils.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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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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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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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 gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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