The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLESChance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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There is no success without hardship.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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