If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
SOPHOCLESNow let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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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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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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