Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
SOPHOCLESThe oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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There is no success without hardship.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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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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