Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLESWhom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
More Sophocles Quotes
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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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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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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