All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
SOPHOCLESIf my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Who seeks shall find.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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