Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SOPHOCLESDark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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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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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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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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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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