Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
SOPHOCLESA lie never lives to be old.
More Sophocles Quotes
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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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.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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