No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
SOPHOCLESThere is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
More Sophocles Quotes
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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There is no success without hardship.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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