Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
SOPHOCLESThere is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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There is no success without hardship.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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