Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLESQuick decisions are unsafe decisions.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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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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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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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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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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