In season, all is good.
SOPHOCLESOur happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
More Sophocles Quotes
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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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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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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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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