Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
SOPHOCLESKindness will always attract kindness.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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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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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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