What you can’t enforce, do not command.
SOPHOCLESTo the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
More Sophocles Quotes
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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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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A lie never lives to be old.
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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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There is no success without hardship.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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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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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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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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Despair often breeds disease.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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