Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLESA wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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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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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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