The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLESI cannot love a friend whose love is words.
More Sophocles Quotes
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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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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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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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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