And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
SOPHOCLESUnwanted favours gain no gratitude.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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