All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
SOPHOCLESIt is hope that maintains most of mankind.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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