Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLESKnowledge must come through action.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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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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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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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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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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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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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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Always desire to learn something useful.
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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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Without labor nothing prospers.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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