The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
SOPHOCLESNot 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.
More Sophocles Quotes
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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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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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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