Love, you mock us for your sport.
SOPHOCLESA fearful man is always hearing things.
More Sophocles Quotes
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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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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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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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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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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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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