Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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More Sophocles Quotes
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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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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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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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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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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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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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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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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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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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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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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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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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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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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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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