But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
SOPHOCLESNo honest man will argue on every side.
More Sophocles Quotes
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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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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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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