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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.


Sophocles

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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
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SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great wor...
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...
SOPHOCLES There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
JOSH BILLINGS No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good...
PLUTARCH Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
C.G. JUNG In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO No matter where you go - there you are
CONFUCIUS Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received...
BRIGHAM YOUNG War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK There is no wisdom like frankness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no wisdom without love.
N. SRI RAM There is no wisdom like frankness
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY if you look beyond every fooly, there is always some trait of wisdom, like wise in every wisdom fool...
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
AESCHYLUS There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
CAROL MATTHAU Nanak builds his house upon that site where there is no death, no birth, and no old age.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
SIR FRANCIS BACON There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
FRANCIS BACON There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that...
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is the point of wisdom if there is no one to listen?
AMGED EDWARDS "There is no wisdom stick to a wrong decision." Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
GERALDINE JEWSBURY There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event
GERALDINE JEWSBURY There is no gem like truth, no wealth like knowledge, no treasure like understanding, and no jewel l...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown o...
EPICURUS There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
UNKNOWN To wisdom there is no end, only acceptance of its limitless range.
KA CHINERY When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL When men make gods, there is no God
EUGENE O'NEILL When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no m...
HOWARD JACOBSON No light is brighter than wisdom, wisdom is the light in the world.
BUDDHA My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is n...
DAVID HAREWOOD My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK The wisdom of the Greeks, when compared to that of the Jews, is absolutely bestial; for apart from G...
MARTIN LUTHER It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, n...
ALETHEA KONTIS Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods, ever continued un...
PLATO Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God
JOHN ADAMS Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH There is no 'Key to Happiness'...the door is always open.
ANONYMOUS Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
WILLIAM JAMES Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
GANDHI Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Passion may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without Passion.
LALIT BHOJWANI Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? A...
LEO TOLSTOY There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. On...
MARTIN LUTHER Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
WILLIAM COWPER One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accompli...
DOUG COOPER Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert...
ADAM CLARKE Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Just a moment ago, I was thinking of postponing my dream for tomorrow, but I decided to take a look ...
PHILIP T. M. The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no ...
JAMES FREY There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. Th...
DAN MILLMAN That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no for...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; ...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
DENNIS BARTON He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUS He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
QUINTUS ENNIUS There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
PROVERB There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
SPANISH PROVERB Where there are no men, be thou a man.
HILLEL DANZIGER There is no difference amongst intelligence, common sense and wisdom, but for own comfort and conven...
ANUJ SOMANY There are no gods in my coffee cup
TONY LAWRENCE Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where ...
CHANAKYA Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understandin...
OSCAR WILDE Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; ther...
CHANAKYA There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
FAY WELDON Passion may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without Passion. Lalit Bhojwani #Q...
LALIT BHOJWANI When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY Were there no women, men might live like gods.
THOMAS DEKKER Were there no women, men might live like gods
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SOPHOCLES Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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SOPHOCLES Who seeks shall find.
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SOPHOCLES Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLES A human being is only breath and shadow.
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SOPHOCLES To touch the quick.
SOPHOCLES We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
SOPHOCLES If you try to cure evil with evil
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SOPHOCLES Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
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More wonderful than man.
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SOPHOCLES For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
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That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big w...
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SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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SOPHOCLES A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
SOPHOCLES You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
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