Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLESIf you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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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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Despair often breeds disease.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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There is no success without hardship.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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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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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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