The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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More Sophocles Quotes
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Despair often breeds disease.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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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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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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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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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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