A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLESWoman, to women silence is the best ornament.
More Sophocles Quotes
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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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 some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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