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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

Sophocles

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLES

Best Born Past Prize
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
SOPHOCLES

Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
SOPHOCLES

Mindset Peace War
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
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.
SOPHOCLES

Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
SOPHOCLES

Nature Noble Speech Stain
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES

Born Kindness One Liner
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
SOPHOCLES

Blind Man See
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
SOPHOCLES

Day Kind Type Yourself
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
SOPHOCLES

Destroy Drive Himself Mad
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
SOPHOCLES

God Injury Punishment Return
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLES

Best Light Live Thinking
I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
SOPHOCLES

Food Myself Recommend
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
SOPHOCLES

Cry God Hands Mourn
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
SOPHOCLES

Strong Weakness
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLES

Forget Happiness Misery Present

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