The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLESWhat people believe prevails over the truth.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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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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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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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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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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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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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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