It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLESEach one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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In season, all is good.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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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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Opportunity has power over all things.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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