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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.

Sophocles

Love, you mock us for your sport.
SOPHOCLES

Funny Love Sport Yourself
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
SOPHOCLES

One Liner Remember Reward Success
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
SOPHOCLES

Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLES

Chance Help Opportunity
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLES

Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
SOPHOCLES

Secret See Time
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
SOPHOCLES

Greatness Hands Opinion Power
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLES

Forget Happiness Misery Present
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
SOPHOCLES

Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
SOPHOCLES

Administration Fear Law Man Obedience People Stand State
Remember there is no success without hard work.
SOPHOCLES

Hard Work Remember Success
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
SOPHOCLES

Act Fear Feeling Man Word
Not 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.
SOPHOCLES

Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
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.
SOPHOCLES

Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
SOPHOCLES

Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule

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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