What people believe prevails over the truth.
SOPHOCLESI have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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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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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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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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A lie never lives to be old.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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