The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
SOPHOCLESWhat you can’t enforce, do not command.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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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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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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