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

Quote by Sophocles

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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a...

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a...

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the...

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the...

An unexamined life is not worth living...

An unexamined life is not worth living...

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...

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the...

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the...

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always

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

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

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save...

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save...

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the...

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the...

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.