The tyrant is a child of pride.
SOPHOCLESKnowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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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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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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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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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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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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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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