Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
SOPHOCLESA lie never lives to be old.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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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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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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