Sophocles

Sophocles

"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."
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"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."
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"Silence is an ornament for women."
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"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere."
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"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."
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"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
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"No lie ever reaches old age."
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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."
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"A man growing old becomes a child again."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."
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"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."
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"Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?"
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"Time is a kindly god."
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"Success is dependent on effort."
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"It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."
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"What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!"
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"It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it."
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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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