There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLESIn season, all is good.
More Sophocles Quotes
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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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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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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In season, all is good.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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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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