Sophocles Quotes
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Do all things with love.
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I kind of discovered Kolkata when I was shooting here for 'Kahaani.' I found the city fascinating.
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A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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It is wise to agree that all things are one.
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.
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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.
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For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
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All things in moderation, including moderation.
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Try all things, hold fast that which is good.
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The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto the page and some of that actually makes it onto the screen.
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There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.
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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.
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Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
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Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
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Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
