The tyrant is a child of pride.
SOPHOCLESNo treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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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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Knowledge must come through action.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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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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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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