Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
SOPHOCLESSleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The good befriend themselves.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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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 though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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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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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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