A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
SOPHOCLESYou should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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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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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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