Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
SOPHOCLESDark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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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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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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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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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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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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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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