You win the victory when you yield to friends.
SOPHOCLESTruth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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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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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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There is no success without hardship.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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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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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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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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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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