None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLESLet men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
More Sophocles Quotes
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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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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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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