It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLESThe happiest life is to be without thought.
More Sophocles Quotes
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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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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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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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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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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