None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
More Sophocles Quotes
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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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.
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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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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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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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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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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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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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