The happiest life is to be without thought.
SOPHOCLESOpinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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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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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Not 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.
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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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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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