Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLESThere is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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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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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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