Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
SOPHOCLESFortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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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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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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