Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLESA mind at peace does not engender wars.
More Sophocles Quotes
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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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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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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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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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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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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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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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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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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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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