I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
SOPHOCLESSleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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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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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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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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Who seeks shall find.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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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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Knowledge must come through action.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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