Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
SOPHOCLESTime, which sees all things, has found you out.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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