Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLESA state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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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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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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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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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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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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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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In season, all is good.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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