A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLESWoman, to women silence is the best ornament.
More Sophocles Quotes
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In season, all is good.
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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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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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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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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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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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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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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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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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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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