Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SophoclesSophocles There is no success without hardship.
SophoclesSophocles The good befriend themselves.
SophoclesSophocles There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SophoclesSophocles A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
SophoclesSophocles Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
SophoclesSophocles Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
SophoclesSophocles Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
SophoclesSophocles Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
SophoclesSophocles A short saying often contains much wisdom.
SophoclesSophocles Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
SophoclesSophocles The tyrant is a child of pride.
SophoclesSophocles Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
SophoclesSophocles Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SophoclesSophocles The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
SophoclesSophocles Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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