Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLESHide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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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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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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No honest man will argue on every side.
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