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3 December 2020 Sophocles

No lie ever reaches old age.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Not even old age knows how to love death.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

God’s dice always have a lucky roll.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

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 minds to turn base deeds.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Who seeks shall find.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

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.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

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

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Silence is an ornament for women.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

There is no success without hardship.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Success is dependent on effort.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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