Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SOPHOCLESAlways desire to learn something useful.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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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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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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In season, all is good.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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