Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLESThe Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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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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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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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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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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In season, all is good.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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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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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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