Despair often breeds disease.

Quote by Sophocles

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Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still...

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still...

Time is a kindly God

Time is a kindly God

An unexamined life is not worth living...

An unexamined life is not worth living...

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who...

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who...

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

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

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

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred...

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred...

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

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

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

When trouble ends even troubles please.

When trouble ends even troubles please.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and...

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and...

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

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

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

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

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

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Always kept everything to myself because didn't want people to find my weak points and...

Always kept everything to myself because didn't want people to find my weak points and...

I'm not going to hurt you like she did. I wish you would give me...

I'm not going to hurt you like she did. I wish you would give me...