A short saying often contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLESEach say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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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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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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In season, all is good.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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