Despair often breeds disease.
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More Sophocles Quotes
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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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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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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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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In season, all is good.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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There is no success without hardship.
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