There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLESThe soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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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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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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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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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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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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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Who seeks shall find.
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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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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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