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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More Sophocles Quotes
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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