How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
SOPHOCLESIgnorance is a tough evil to conquer.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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There is no success without hardship.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Who seeks shall find.
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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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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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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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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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