All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
SOPHOCLESMuch wisdom often goes with fewer words.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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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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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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