How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Quote by Sophocles

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An unexamined life is not worth living...

An unexamined life is not worth living...

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil...

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil...

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

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

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

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the...

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the...

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still...

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still...

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

No honest man will argue on every side

No honest man will argue on every side

For the dead there are no more toils.

For the dead there are no more toils.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him...

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him...

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or...

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or...

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is...

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is...

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on...

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on...

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when...

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when...