All Quotes
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Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.Sophocles, Ajax
It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.Sophocles, Ajax
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.Dick Cavett
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Time eases all things.Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.Sophocles, Antigone
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.Sophocles, Antigone