Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
SOPHOCLESThings gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
More Sophocles Quotes
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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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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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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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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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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