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.
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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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Who seeks shall find.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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In season, all is good.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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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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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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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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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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