To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
SOPHOCLESStranger in a strange country.
More Sophocles Quotes
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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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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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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There is no success without hardship.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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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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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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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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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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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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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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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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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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In season, all is good.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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