Sophocles

(506 votes)   It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

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(474 votes)   Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

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(451 votes)   There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

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(445 votes)   One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

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(437 votes)   Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(348 votes)   None love the messenger who brings bad news.

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(342 votes)   Kindness gives birth to kindness.

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BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(317 votes)   What you cannot enforce, do not command.

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BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(303 votes)   None loves the messenger who brings bad news.

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BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(288 votes)   Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

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BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(279 votes)   Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

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(274 votes)   The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

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BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(238 votes)   Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

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BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(216 votes)   Truth is always the strongest argument.

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BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(147 votes)   It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

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