Each 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.
SOPHOCLESMen of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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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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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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