A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLESWhat people believe prevails over the truth.
More Sophocles Quotes
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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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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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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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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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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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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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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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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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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