If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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More Sophocles Quotes
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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