Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLESIf my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
More Sophocles Quotes
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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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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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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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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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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