What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Sophocles on blame
Sophocles146 quotes“What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!”
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
SophoclesSophocles Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
SophoclesSophocles There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
SophoclesSophocles Laziness is the mother of all evils.
SophoclesSophocles You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
SophoclesSophocles Knowledge must come through action.
SophoclesSophocles Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SophoclesSophocles In season, all is good.
SophoclesSophocles Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
SophoclesSophocles Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
SophoclesSophocles There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
SophoclesSophocles Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
SophoclesSophocles Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SophoclesSophocles One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
SophoclesSophocles Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
SophoclesSophocles Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God’s sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich You can’t blame her for drifting away when you never asked her ship to stay. – abandonment ship.
Haley Ann WardHaley Ann Ward Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind.
Sri ChinmoySri Chinmoy Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.
Sri ChinmoySri Chinmoy Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being – to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.
Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
Rod StewartRod Stewart Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
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