A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
SOPHOCLESI have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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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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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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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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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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