Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
SOPHOCLESOpinions have greater power than strength of hands.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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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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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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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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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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