Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLESA wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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The good befriend themselves.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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There is no success without hardship.
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In season, all is good.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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