Opportunity has power over all things.
SOPHOCLESSurely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Who seeks shall find.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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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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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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