Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
SOPHOCLESNot to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
More Sophocles Quotes
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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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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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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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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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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