I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
SOPHOCLESLaziness is the mother of all evils.
More Sophocles Quotes
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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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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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Who seeks shall find.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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