Silence is an ornament for women.
SophoclesRead
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Interpretation
Humans should stay true to their nature and not act against it.
This quote by Sophocles highlights the importance of authenticity and the consequences of deviating from one's true nature. When individuals act in ways that are not aligned with their intrinsic qualities or values, it leads to a sense of disgust, both for oneself and from others, emphasizing the necessity of self-awareness and integrity in one's actions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about personal integrity.
Silence is an ornament for women.
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
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.
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way
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