The happiest life is to be without thought.
SOPHOCLESYou win the victory when you yield to friends.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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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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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Who seeks shall find.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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