Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
SOPHOCLESNow let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
More Sophocles Quotes
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Who seeks shall find.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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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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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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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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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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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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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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