What you can’t enforce, do not command.
SOPHOCLESI recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Who seeks shall find.
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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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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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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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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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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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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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