Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
SOPHOCLESIt is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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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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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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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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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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