Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
SOPHOCLESSurely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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There is no success without hardship.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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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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Knowledge must come through action.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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