Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
SOPHOCLESTime, which sees all things, has found you out.
More Sophocles Quotes
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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The good befriend themselves.
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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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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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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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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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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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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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