It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLESNo treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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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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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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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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