Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLESA wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Knowledge must come through action.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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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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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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