Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
SOPHOCLESI would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Stranger in a strange country.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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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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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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