Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
SOPHOCLESFortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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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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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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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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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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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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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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