Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
SOPHOCLESIn season, all is good.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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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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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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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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There is no success without hardship.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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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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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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