Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
SOPHOCLESThe Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
More Sophocles Quotes
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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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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There is no success without hardship.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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