Despair often breeds disease.
SOPHOCLESA wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
More Sophocles Quotes
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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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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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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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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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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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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