One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLESWoman, to women silence is the best ornament.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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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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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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