Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
SOPHOCLESDespair often breeds disease.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
SOPHOCLESSurely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLESThe greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
SOPHOCLESFortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
SOPHOCLESA mind at peace does not engender wars.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
SOPHOCLESIf we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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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.
SOPHOCLESWealth 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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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLESDon’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLESWithout labor nothing prospers.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
SOPHOCLESFor whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
SOPHOCLESRemember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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The good befriend themselves.
SOPHOCLESThe good befriend themselves.
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