The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLESHow dangerous can false reasoning prove!
More Sophocles Quotes
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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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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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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