I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
SOPHOCLESTo the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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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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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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