What people believe prevails over the truth.
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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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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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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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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There is no success without hardship.
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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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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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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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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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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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