For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
SOPHOCLESIt is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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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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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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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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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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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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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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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 tyrant is a child of pride.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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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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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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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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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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