There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLESProfit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The good befriend themselves.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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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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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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