Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLESA fearful man is always hearing things.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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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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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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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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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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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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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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