Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SOPHOCLESStrike at a great man, and you will not miss.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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