Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLESDark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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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 good befriend themselves.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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