Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
SOPHOCLESOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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In season, all is good.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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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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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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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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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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