I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
SOPHOCLESThe truth is always the strongest argument.
More Sophocles Quotes
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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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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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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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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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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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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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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