What you can’t enforce, do not command.
SOPHOCLESIn a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Knowledge must come through action.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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