No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SOPHOCLESMen of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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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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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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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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Who seeks shall find.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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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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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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