No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
SOPHOCLESEach say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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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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