Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles
Related:
- An ill agreement is better than a good
judgement. --... - And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate,
and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness... - So you mean I'm drunk. I feel strange, but also good.
Because, because you have lost the capacity for self... - If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill
of man lies within his own will,
and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still... - The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.
The happy man confines himself within ancient limits... - Bad judgement + experience + luck = good
judgement... - Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him
an ill general."
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Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii... - The evil that men do lives after them
The good is oft interred with their bones
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Shakespeare - Julius... - A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
-- Sophocles (496-406 BC)
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Aletes, Frag....
