The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLESNot knowing anything is the sweetest life.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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