Kindness begets kindness evermore.
SOPHOCLESThings gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
More Sophocles Quotes
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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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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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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