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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always


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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
BRIGHAM YOUNG By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
DIXIE CARTER A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
THOMAS FULLER Man is, I confess, a wicked creature.
MOLIERE Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
LALU PRASAD YADAV It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLES My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
DANNY AIELLO The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON It takes a great man to be a good listener.
CALVIN COOLIDGE It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
BIBLE The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries t...
DAISY BATES It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all...
PLATO When prizes go to the wicked it is hard for any man to be good without reward.
LUCIUS MARCIUS PHILIPPUS Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
JOHN MCAFEE A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY No man was ever wise by chance.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No man ever became wise by chance
SENECA No man was ever wise by chance
SENECA You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS If a man marries a wicked woman from a wicked family, certainly he will die the day he needs life.
VIKRANT PARSAI Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
JACK HANDY It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
JACK HANDEY The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
SIGMUND FREUD Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because...
HANS J. MORGENTHAU He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult; and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.
ANONYMOUS A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
ANDREI PLATONOV A good man never dies.
CALLIMACHUS You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.
ROBERT C. SAVAGE Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
MARCUS AURELIUS A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.
KYLE BARGER By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it take...
JANET FLANNER By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes...
JANET FLANNER Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man...
INDIAN PROVERB A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
CONFUCIUS The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
VAN WYCK BROOKS The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses
VAN WYCK BROOKS Beware of a wicked man who is trying to be generous.
VIKRANT PARSAI There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
ARLEIGH BURKE The size of a man is measured by what it takes to upset him.
VIKRANT PARSAI The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.
JESSIE BURTON Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT Demons run when a good man goes to war.
Night will fall and drown the sun,
When a good man...
STEVEN MOFFAT Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
VITTORIO ALFIERI What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
MEISTER ECKHART "A good man always knows his limitations
CLINT EASTWOOD It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
XENOPHANES It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
DIOGENES It takes a wise man to discover a wise man
DIOGENES It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
CHARLES A. GARFIELD It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
CHARLES GARFIELD A man becomes unrighteous just because of his unholy thoughts but graduates to become a wicked by br...
TOM KRAUSE I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Man, I just want to stay in his face the whole game, any chance I get.
BOO MCLEE The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
ROGER BABSON When I looked at that young man, I saw someone who could have a second chance to rehabilitate himsel...
JAMES RICHARDSON By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.
BEN LEWIN The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
BIBLE A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man t...
JACK HANDEY The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man w...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked...
BRENNA YOVANOFF If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a l...
EDDIE ALBERT The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it.
UNKNOWN It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
QUINTILIAN No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
UNKNOWN It takes a man to please a woman but, It takes a great man to make her feel worth and respected.
ROSE MESQUITA [It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the mor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surrounding...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
FRIEDA LAWRENCE At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drin...
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
SIR JAMES GLOVER A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
LORD MORAN And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
KAREL CAPEK Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
BIBLE It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak ...
CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
ROBERT S. SURTEES A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is c...
RUTHIE STEIN He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
BIBLE It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
ARISTOTLE When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT He's a really good, good man. He never says a bad word about anybody.
DIANE SPAULDING He's a really good, good man, ... He never says a bad word about anybody.
GEORGE SPAULDING If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not g...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
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SOPHOCLES I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
SOPHOCLES For the dead there are no more toils.
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SOPHOCLES A short saying often contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES Truth is always the strongest argument.
SOPHOCLES Success, remember is the reward of toil.
SOPHOCLES Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to
SOPHOCLES All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...
SOPHOCLES One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
SOPHOCLES To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
SOPHOCLES None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES No enemy is worse than bad advice.
SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
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.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
SOPHOCLES Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
SOPHOCLES Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as...
SOPHOCLES The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating
SOPHOCLES Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law
SOPHOCLES When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, <...
SOPHOCLES Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLES It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul...
SOPHOCLES In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
SOPHOCLES Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dis...
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.
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SOPHOCLES If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a ...
SOPHOCLES A man growing old becomes a child again.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends.
SOPHOCLES Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
SOPHOCLES A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
SOPHOCLES Who seeks shall find.
SOPHOCLES Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
SOPHOCLES Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
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.
SOPHOCLES There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,
When it finds its nest left empt and little o...
SOPHOCLES For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SOPHOCLES Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
SOPHOCLES The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all li...
SOPHOCLES Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
SOPHOCLES Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest d...
SOPHOCLES To revive sorrow is cruel.
SOPHOCLES Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
SOPHOCLES I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...
SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
SOPHOCLES Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
SOPHOCLES For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
SOPHOCLES Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
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.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
SOPHOCLES Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big w...
SOPHOCLES Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until ...
SOPHOCLES Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
SOPHOCLES A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
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:
That word is love.
SOPHOCLES It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
SOPHOCLES The end excuses any evil.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
SOPHOCLES The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are ...
SOPHOCLES To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by i...
SOPHOCLES Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
SOPHOCLES To a man who is afraid everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass life's goal.
SOPHOCLES They command us, though they speak no words.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause the weak will beat the strong
SOPHOCLES Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it f...
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words a...
SOPHOCLES There is a point at which even justice does injury.
SOPHOCLES One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try
SOPHOCLES It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SOPHOCLES Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause it is right to be confident
SOPHOCLES There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust
SOPHOCLES It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has mad...
SOPHOCLES Silence gives the proper grace to women
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SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the bringer of bad news
SOPHOCLES There are many wonderful things, but none is more wonderful than man
SOPHOCLES Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial
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
SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong
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
SOPHOCLES No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforw...
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.
SOPHOCLES If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would b...
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
SOPHOCLES There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;
States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins...
SOPHOCLES The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,...
SOPHOCLES AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.

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.
SOPHOCLES For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a ...
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...
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great wor...
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to a man...
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.
SOPHOCLES