But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
SOPHOCLESFear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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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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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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There is no success without hardship.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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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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