Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
SOPHOCLESNobody likes the bringer of bad news.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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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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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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