When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
SOPHOCLESProfit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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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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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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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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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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