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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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SOPHOCLES True words aren't eloquent;
eloquent words aren't true.
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LAO TZU There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
JOSH BILLINGS "Conversation"

God and I in space alone . . .
and nobody else in view . . .
"And wh...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as...
AESCHYLUS A wise man learns from his mistakes;
a fool won't even learn from his fatal ones.
There is...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear...
T.S. ELIOT No matter how fleeting
Your smile is,
Your smile is the very beginning
Of your wisdo...
SRI CHINMOY There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all thing...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years-
Twenty years largely wasted, the year...
T.S. ELIOT In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?

Because all else is temporary, while beauty...
VERA NAZARIAN No reason for a feverish rush
For we will all arrive in the same place
At the right time...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too ...
THOMAS GRAY Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness to...
THOMAS GRAY We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A love poem about the most invisible woman:

The perfect mind, the perfect cover.
I k...
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No promises on time.
There is only this moment.
And ...
J. SAMAN 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...
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CHARLES H. SPURGEON Here is the test of wisdom,
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No differenc...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good...
PLUTARCH The pain will always be there.

So will the fear.

But the pain and fear are no ...
COLLEEN HOOVER To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
i...
HERACLITUS Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
C.G. JUNG I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map
and there is no road.
It is one of...
ANNE SEXTON In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO For some there is no music
No lights
No fire
No untamed madness that breathes life HENRY ROLLINS There is no window to look outside.
There is no window to look within.
Open the doors.
SANHITA BARUAH There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
DANTE ALIGHIERI Memory is a tenuous thing. . . .

flickering glimpses, blue
and white, like ancient,<...
ELLEN HOPKINS You shall go with me, newly-married bride,
And gaze upon a merrier multitude.
White-armed Nual...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Is this where the light faded out forever?
Where the cat was finally killed by caught tongue? ...
MELLON BLACK Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd in one self place; but where we are is hell,
And wher...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor ...
BIBLE 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 Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where the...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI I have no pain, but he has split open my skull.
There is no matter, I mean, there is no brain i...
SANDRA HARNER Everything we say and do affects people.
It can be either physically or mentally.
Words ca...
HINA YU Life is a valuable and unique opportunity
to discover who you are.
But it seems as soon as...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH There are no gurus of love.
There is no mantra to make love.
SANTOSH KALWAR You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Y...
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Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
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The most unknowing...
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Ni dieu ni maître!

(Neither God nor master)

[Feminist and labour slogan trans...
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There is no greater guilt than discontentment.<...
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Come let us fart in the home.
There...
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And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for...
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My sorrowing eyes aside did cast
And here and there the places s...
ANNE DUDLEY BRADSTREET The trouble with life
isn't that there is no answer,
but that there are so many answers
RUTH BENEDICT What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,
Long hoped for calm, the autumnal seren...
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Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
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Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity
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“Wh...
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clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is l...
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As there are no trustworthy oaths between...
HOMER Intelligence is what we learn.
Wisdom is what we unlearn.
J.R. RIM War is no solution to peace.
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That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
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Listen for it, and it can’t be heard.
Grasp for it,...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no wisdom without love.
N. SRI RAM There is no wisdom like frankness
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When my body no longer exists
But in the lines of this poem
I will ...
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The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greates...
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ROBIN HOBB 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... Random thoughts that fly away.
Where words has no place to stay.
Let it be right where t...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits t...
AESCHYLUS There is no need for temples, no need for
complicated philosophies. My brain and my
heart...
DALAI LAMA I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth <...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA This is where I go, when I go:

It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that a...
JODI PICOULT Most important thing in life is family,
Without them you are nothing.
Whatever you do will...
AKASH LAKHOTIA The Anatomy of Conflict:

If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there ...
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SOPHOCLES Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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SOPHOCLES No enemy is worse than bad advice.
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SOPHOCLES There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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SOPHOCLES It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES Better to die, and sleep
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SOPHOCLES In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
SOPHOCLES Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
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SOPHOCLES The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLES Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SOPHOCLES Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SOPHOCLES Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLES Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
SOPHOCLES The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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SOPHOCLES Who seeks shall find.
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SOPHOCLES Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES Success is dependent on effort.
SOPHOCLES Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLES A human being is only breath and shadow.
SOPHOCLES A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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
you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil than anarchy.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
SOPHOCLES All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
SOPHOCLES All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
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SOPHOCLES To revive sorrow is cruel.
SOPHOCLES Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
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SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
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SOPHOCLES Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
SOPHOCLES For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
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SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
SOPHOCLES To him who is in fear everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old.
SOPHOCLES What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
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SOPHOCLES Time eases all things.
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
SOPHOCLES The good befriend themselves.
SOPHOCLES Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLES One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
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SOPHOCLES The end excuses any evil.
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SOPHOCLES They command us, though they speak no words.
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SOPHOCLES Silence gives the proper grace to women
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SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the bringer of bad news
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SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
SOPHOCLES The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right,...
SOPHOCLES Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
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SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLES Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn
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SOPHOCLES No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SOPHOCLES It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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SOPHOCLES It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
SOPHOCLES To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
SOPHOCLES Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune
SOPHOCLES It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLES Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
SOPHOCLES Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew ...
SOPHOCLES No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
SOPHOCLES No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
SOPHOCLES Even a poor man can receive honors.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
SOPHOCLES If you are out of trouble, watch for danger
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Who drinks from his sickening cup
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ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuv...
SOPHOCLES Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
SOPHOCLES I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...
SOPHOCLES Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to ...
SOPHOCLES Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best li...
SOPHOCLES The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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SOPHOCLES Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
SOPHOCLES The only crime is pride.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom
SOPHOCLES No honest man will argue on every side
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLES Time is a kindly God
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
SOPHOCLES Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old
SOPHOCLES God's dice always have a lucky roll
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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.
SOPHOCLES It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
SOPHOCLES Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
B...
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SOPHOCLES Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...
SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man; the storm gray sea
Y...
SOPHOCLES I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.
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