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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.


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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
EURIPIDES A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
SALLUST A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
SALLUST A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means
SALLUST An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still i...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than ...
SUZY KASSEM No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of th...
WILLIAM SAROYAN One loyal friend,” Euripides reminds us, “is worth ten thousand relatives.
STACY SCHIFF I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
AESCHYLUS I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
CLARENCE DARROW I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend than be one
CLARENCE DARROW Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ig...
SAADI I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend;
A wise enemy is worth more.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Fear an ignorant man more than a lion
TURKISH PROVERB Paper is more patient than man, but it is still nothing compared to a good friend.
SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the ma...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man...
JOHANN K. LAVATER Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the ma...
JOHANN K LAVATER Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the ma...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fo...
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fo...
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
MOLI I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good frie...
FRANK SINATRA The person, who causes the downfall of a noble woman... who causes loss to his friend...who despite ...
ATHARVA VEDA No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evil...
PLATO The only thing worse than an ignorant man is an ignorant man with a bible.
UNKNOWN An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your bod...
UNKNOWN An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your bod...
BUDDHA One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sa...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si da...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The battle between good and evil is actually the battle of occupying either more light or more shado...
APURVA GAGLANI An ignorant person is poorer than the man who has no money.
VIKRANT PARSAI What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
PIETRO ARETINO A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good frie...
FRANK SINATRA 269.—No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he...
BUDDHA There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is o...
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its a...
DAN BROWN Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clev...
STACY SCHIFF Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LEWIS Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he...
DALAI LAMA XIV A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experie...
GLORIA NAYLOR Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while in...
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
THOMAS CARLYLE There is nothing more dangerous than ignorant people who think they know everything.
KEN NDARU Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
PLAUTUS Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and ...
C.S. LEWIS A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who ...
LANA TURNER I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
CICERO I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.
BENJAMIN COHEN While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM...
RVM A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far m...
KHALIL GIBRAN A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far m...
KAHLIL GIBRAN A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
POPE JOHN XXIII Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of need.
UNKNOWN Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Lorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.'
'I would be the last to disagre...
JOE ABERCROMBIE More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas goo...
LARS VON TRIER While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM...
RVM Your best friend is the only one who would tell you the person you are in love with is a sexually am...
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches...
CRISS JAMI Nothing is more alluring to a man than a woman who looks good in her jeans.
NINA GARCIA I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way
MARK TWAIN I am one of those who think, like MARIE CURIE A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of tim...
VOLTAIRE She would be prefer to be known as a good racer,
ERIN CROCKER Bullet, he's as happy as a singing bird, and Clever is too.
COLLEEN DAVIDSON No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much
JEAN PAUL RICHTER I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me dow...
CARMEN ELECTRA Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
ANTHONY BURGESS I watched my gestures, ... Usually, I would be more pumped up. I tried not to show as much. He's a v...
RAFAEL NADAL I watched my gestures. Usually, I would be more pumped up. I tried not to show as much. He's a very ...
RAFAEL NADAL Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The crimin...
PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison
BUDDHA No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor;...
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
SENECA I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me...
CARMEN ELECTRA A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand
KAHLIL GIBRAN If we had someone play McCarthy, people would have said, he is (portrayed as) too harsh or too evil ...
NICK CLOONEY Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may s...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
MOLIERE I would prefer if they spread it out a little more instead of $400,000 for one race.
BILL DELIA I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
BAO DAI

More Euripides

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
EURIPIDES One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
EURIPIDES No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
EURIPIDES He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
EURIPIDES He is not a lover who does not love forever.
EURIPIDES The greatest pleasure of life is love.
EURIPIDES There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
EURIPIDES Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
EURIPIDES But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
EURIPIDES The wavering mind is but a base possession.
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom.
EURIPIDES Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
EURIPIDES Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES The language of truth is simple.
EURIPIDES People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
EURIPIDES Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns...
EURIPIDES It is change; all yields its place and goes.
EURIPIDES Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
EURIPIDES Authority is never without hate.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
EURIPIDES Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
EURIPIDES Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
EURIPIDES There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
EURIPIDES In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
EURIPIDES No one who lives in error is free.
EURIPIDES Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
EURIPIDES Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is s...
EURIPIDES Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
EURIPIDES 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
EURIPIDES Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
EURIPIDES Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EURIPIDES I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EURIPIDES To generous souls every task is noble.
EURIPIDES Noble fathers have noble children.
EURIPIDES To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
EURIPIDES Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES The bold are helpless without cleverness.
EURIPIDES The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
EURIPIDES We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
EURIPIDES Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
EURIPIDES Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
EURIPIDES Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperce...
EURIPIDES The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
EURIPIDES There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
EURIPIDES Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can c...
EURIPIDES It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
EURIPIDES O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
EURIPIDES Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom
EURIPIDES A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
EURIPIDES I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
EURIPIDES Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
EURIPIDES It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
EURIPIDES God helps him who strives hard.
EURIPIDES The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsm...
EURIPIDES Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves
EURIPIDES Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
EURIPIDES It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
EURIPIDES I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
EURIPIDES Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
EURIPIDES Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
EURIPIDES Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
EURIPIDES The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
EURIPIDES There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
EURIPIDES The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
EURIPIDES Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
EURIPIDES Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES There is just one life for each of us: our own.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
EURIPIDES No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them...
EURIPIDES Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EURIPIDES Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
EURIPIDES They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in...
EURIPIDES For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And dev...
EURIPIDES Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
EURIPIDES What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
EURIPIDES Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?
EURIPIDES This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
EURIPIDES [Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helple...
EURIPIDES Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
EURIPIDES The God knows when to smile.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flow...
EURIPIDES Come, God --
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
EURIPIDES My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
EURIPIDES Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling
can corrupt an honest woman.
EURIPIDES Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
EURIPIDES Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recallin...
EURIPIDES He who believes needs no explanation.
EURIPIDES He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
EURIPIDES Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess...
EURIPIDES Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
EURIPIDES A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
EURIPIDES Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
EURIPIDES Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
EURIPIDES Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...
EURIPIDES Soon all of you immortals
Will be as dead as we are!
Come on then, what are you waiting f...
EURIPIDES Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
EURIPIDES Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I hav...
EURIPIDES Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
EURIPIDES A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
EURIPIDES A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
EURIPIDES Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EURIPIDES A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Your very silence shows you agree.
EURIPIDES Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EURIPIDES The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...
EURIPIDES Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
EURIPIDES Do not consider painful what is good for you.
EURIPIDES Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction.
EURIPIDES When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
EURIPIDES Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
EURIPIDES Youth holds no society with grief.
EURIPIDES What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
EURIPIDES My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
EURIPIDES Leave no stone unturned.
EURIPIDES In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
EURIPIDES I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and p...
EURIPIDES You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
EURIPIDES Time cancels young pain.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble...
EURIPIDES I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
EURIPIDES Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
EURIPIDES This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
EURIPIDES Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
EURIPIDES It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk
EURIPIDES Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
EURIPIDES Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs
EURIPIDES What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.
EURIPIDES The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
EURIPIDES I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
EURIPIDES If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
EURIPIDES For a sickness, love is the healthiest
EURIPIDES Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
EURIPIDES Prosperity is full of friends.
EURIPIDES Unhappiness remembering happiness.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways
EURIPIDES Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
EURIPIDES Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman
EURIPIDES Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
EURIPIDES There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES All is change; all yields its place and goes
EURIPIDES The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
EURIPIDES If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
EURIPIDES The man that isn't jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking
EURIPIDES Money is the wise man's religion
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES No one is happy all his life long.
EURIPIDES In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
EURIPIDES The lucky person passes for a genius.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
EURIPIDES Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it
EURIPIDES It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished
EURIPIDES If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
EURIPIDES