Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
SOPHOCLESThings gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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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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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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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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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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In season, all is good.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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