Opportunity has power over all things.
SOPHOCLESEach one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The good befriend themselves.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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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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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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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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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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