Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
SOPHOCLESKnowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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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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