Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SophoclesSophocles Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
SophoclesSophocles 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.
SophoclesSophocles A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
SophoclesSophocles A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
SophoclesSophocles No honest man will argue on every side.
SophoclesSophocles None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SophoclesSophocles How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
SophoclesSophocles Without labor nothing prospers.
SophoclesSophocles Despair often breeds disease.
SophoclesSophocles Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SophoclesSophocles It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
SophoclesSophocles Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
SophoclesSophocles Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
SophoclesSophocles 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.
SophoclesSophocles Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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