Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
SOPHOCLESOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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Who seeks shall find.
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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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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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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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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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