And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
SOPHOCLESBrave hearts do not back down back off.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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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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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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