A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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More Sophocles Quotes
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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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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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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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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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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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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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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