Knowledge must come through action.
SOPHOCLESTime is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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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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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.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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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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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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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Who seeks shall find.
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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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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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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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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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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.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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