For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
More Quotes from Sophocles:
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.Sophocles
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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