Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLESUnwanted favours gain no gratitude.
More Sophocles Quotes
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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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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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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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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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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