Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLESUgly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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The good befriend themselves.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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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.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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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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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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