Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLESSurely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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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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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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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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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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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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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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