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From Quotes by Sophocles
- One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
- The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.
- The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable…
- Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
- Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
- Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.
- The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to…
- 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…
- From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape
- 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…
- You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
- It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
- Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
- Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
- There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly…
- Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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