All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
SOPHOCLESLaziness is the mother of all evils.
More Sophocles Quotes
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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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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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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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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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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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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There is no success without hardship.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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