Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLESIf we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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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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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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