Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
SOPHOCLESIn a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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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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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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