Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLESQuick decisions are unsafe decisions.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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In season, all is good.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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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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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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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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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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