Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLESIgnorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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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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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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