Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLESA state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Who seeks shall find.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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