Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
SOPHOCLESNobody likes the bringer of bad news.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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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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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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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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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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