The truth is always the strongest argument.
SOPHOCLESWhat greater wound is there than a false friend?
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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Knowledge must come through action.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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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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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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The good befriend themselves.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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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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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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