Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLESFortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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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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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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