I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
SOPHOCLESThere is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
More Sophocles Quotes
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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