Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLESI cannot love a friend whose love is words.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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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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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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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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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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