For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
SOPHOCLESTruly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
More Sophocles Quotes
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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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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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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