Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
SOPHOCLESThe greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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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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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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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 oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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