How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
SOPHOCLESHow terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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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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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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