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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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SOPHOCLES Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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SOPHOCLES For the dead there are no more toils.
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SOPHOCLES Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES No enemy is worse than bad advice.
SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
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SOPHOCLES Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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SOPHOCLES It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES Better to die, and sleep
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And dare to live when the soul...
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SOPHOCLES Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
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To speak dis...
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SOPHOCLES Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SOPHOCLES Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SOPHOCLES Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLES Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
SOPHOCLES The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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SOPHOCLES Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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SOPHOCLES Who seeks shall find.
SOPHOCLES Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
SOPHOCLES Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES Success is dependent on effort.
SOPHOCLES Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLES A human being is only breath and shadow.
SOPHOCLES A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
SOPHOCLES To touch the quick.
SOPHOCLES We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
SOPHOCLES If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil than anarchy.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
SOPHOCLES All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
SOPHOCLES All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
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SOPHOCLES Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
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SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
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SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
SOPHOCLES Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
SOPHOCLES For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
SOPHOCLES Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
SOPHOCLES To him who is in fear everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old.
SOPHOCLES What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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SOPHOCLES Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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SOPHOCLES Time eases all things.
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
SOPHOCLES The good befriend themselves.
SOPHOCLES Stranger in a strange country.
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SOPHOCLES The end excuses any evil.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
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SOPHOCLES The ideal condition
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SOPHOCLES There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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SOPHOCLES No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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SOPHOCLES It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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SOPHOCLES No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
SOPHOCLES No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
SOPHOCLES Even a poor man can receive honors.
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SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLES Time is a kindly God
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SOPHOCLES Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old
SOPHOCLES God's dice always have a lucky roll
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SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
SOPHOCLES You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
SOPHOCLES It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
SOPHOCLES Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
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