Sophocles on cruelty
Sophocles146 quotes“The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.”
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
SophoclesSophocles A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
SophoclesSophocles Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
SophoclesSophocles Who seeks shall find.
SophoclesSophocles Success, remember is the reward of toil.
SophoclesSophocles No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SophoclesSophocles Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
SophoclesSophocles Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
SophoclesSophocles A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
SophoclesSophocles A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
SophoclesSophocles No honest man will argue on every side.
SophoclesSophocles None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SophoclesSophocles How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
SophoclesSophocles Without labor nothing prospers.
SophoclesSophocles Despair often breeds disease.
SophoclesSophocles Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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