Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLESSleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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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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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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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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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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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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