Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
SOPHOCLESWhoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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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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