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Sophocles Inspirational Quotes (267)

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Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
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One's own escape from troubles makes one glad but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
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Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
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For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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Great Time makes all things dim.
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
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More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
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All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.
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Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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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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Silence is an ornament for women.
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God's dice always have a lucky roll.
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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
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I write a woman's oaths in water.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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