No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
SophoclesSophocles Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SophoclesSophocles The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SophoclesSophocles Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
SophoclesSophocles Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
SophoclesSophocles If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
SophoclesSophocles Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
SophoclesSophocles In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
SophoclesSophocles A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
SophoclesSophocles Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
SophoclesSophocles All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
SophoclesSophocles Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SophoclesSophocles Kindness will always attract kindness.
SophoclesSophocles The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
SophoclesSophocles The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SophoclesSophocles What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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