Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
SOPHOCLESDon’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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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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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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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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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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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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