A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLESYou win the victory when you yield to friends.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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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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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Stranger in a strange country.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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