The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
SOPHOCLESTime, which sees all things, has found you out.
More Sophocles Quotes
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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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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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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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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