Love, you mock us for your sport.
SOPHOCLESWhat greater wound is there than a false friend?
More Sophocles Quotes
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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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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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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