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Friday, 5 September 2008
Daily Quote:
"Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better." (Burney, Charles - Unity)

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Browse Quotations by Sophocles

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
For the dead there are no more toils.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
What you cannot enforce, do not command.


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