Quotes by Greek authors

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Sophocles

"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness"

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Sophocles

"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven"

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Sophocles

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit"

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Sophocles

"A state is not a state if it belongs to one man"

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Sophocles

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

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Sophocles

"Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool"

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Sophocles

"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse"

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Sophocles

"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us"

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Sophocles

"There is no greater evil than anarchy"

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Sophocles

"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick"

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Sophocles

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love"

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Sophocles

"It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds"

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Sophocles

"It is best to live however one can be"

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Sophocles

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away"

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Sophocles

"If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too"

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Sophocles

"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all"

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Sophocles

"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"

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Sophocles

"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly"

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Sophocles

"A fearful man is always hearing things"

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Sophocles

"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things"

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Sophocles

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"

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Sophocles

"To him who is in fear everything rustles"

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Sophocles

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way"

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Sophocles

"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best"

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Sophocles

"It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do"

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Sophocles

"Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing"

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Sophocles

"Evil gains work their punishment"

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Sophocles

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies"

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Sophocles

"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver"

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Sophocles

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife"

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Sophocles

"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad"

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Sophocles

"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure"

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Sophocles

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities"

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Sophocles

"Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?"

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Sophocles

"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick"

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Sophocles

"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness"

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Sophocles

"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune"

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Sophocles

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong"

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Sophocles

"He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life"

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Sophocles

"Evil counsel travels fast"

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