Quotes by Sophocles

Even a poor man can receive honors.

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No enemy is worse than bad advice.

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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives...

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Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have...

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Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event,...

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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

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It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

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It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

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