Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
SOPHOCLESMoney is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
More Sophocles Quotes
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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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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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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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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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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