Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLESIt is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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The good befriend themselves.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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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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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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