Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
SOPHOCLESKindness will always attract kindness.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The good befriend themselves.
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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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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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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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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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In season, all is good.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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