None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLESChance never helps those who do not help themselves.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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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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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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