The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLESFortune never helps the fainthearted.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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