Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
SOPHOCLESNot knowing anything is the sweetest life.
More Sophocles Quotes
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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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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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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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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Knowledge must come through action.
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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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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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The good befriend themselves.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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