The tyrant is a child of pride.
SOPHOCLESA wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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