None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLESIt is hope that maintains most of mankind.
More Sophocles Quotes
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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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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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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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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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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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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