Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SOPHOCLESChance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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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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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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