No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SOPHOCLESA lie never lives to be old.
More Sophocles Quotes
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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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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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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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 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.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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