Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLESSuccess, remember is the reward of toil.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Despair often breeds disease.
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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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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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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.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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