A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
SOPHOCLESSleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
More Sophocles Quotes
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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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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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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In season, all is good.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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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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