Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
SOPHOCLESWhoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
More Sophocles Quotes
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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There is no success without hardship.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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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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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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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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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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