Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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SophoclesSophocles A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
SophoclesSophocles A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
SophoclesSophocles No honest man will argue on every side.
SophoclesSophocles None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SophoclesSophocles How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
SophoclesSophocles Without labor nothing prospers.
SophoclesSophocles Despair often breeds disease.
SophoclesSophocles It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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