The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLESThe Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
More Sophocles Quotes
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A lie never lives to be old.
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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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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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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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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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