Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
SOPHOCLESHe who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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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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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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