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.
SOPHOCLESDespair often breeds disease.
More Sophocles Quotes
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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