But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
SOPHOCLESWhat fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
More Sophocles Quotes
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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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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Without labor nothing prospers.
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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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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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