A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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More Sophocles Quotes
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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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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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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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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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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