Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLESFortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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There is no success without hardship.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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A lie never lives to be old.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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