Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
SOPHOCLESThe keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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