Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLESA state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
More Sophocles Quotes
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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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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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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The good befriend themselves.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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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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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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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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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Who seeks shall find.
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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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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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