A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
More Sophocles Quotes
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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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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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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The good befriend themselves.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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