Knowledge must come through action.
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Despair often breeds disease.
SophoclesSophocles Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SophoclesSophocles It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
SophoclesSophocles Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
SophoclesSophocles 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.
SophoclesSophocles All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
SophoclesSophocles Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
SophoclesSophocles If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
SophoclesSophocles Love, you mock us for your sport.
SophoclesSophocles Kindness begets kindness evermore.
SophoclesSophocles Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SophoclesSophocles The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SophoclesSophocles Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
SophoclesSophocles Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
SophoclesSophocles If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
SophoclesSophocles Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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