Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
SOPHOCLESAll is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
More Sophocles Quotes
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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