All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
SOPHOCLESStranger in a strange country.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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