Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
SOPHOCLESNo honest man will argue on every side.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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The good befriend themselves.
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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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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Each 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.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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