I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
SOPHOCLESWhat you can’t enforce, do not command.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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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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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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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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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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