What people believe prevails over the truth.
SOPHOCLESThere is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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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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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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