What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Sophocles146 quotes“What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!”
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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.
SophoclesSophocles Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
SophoclesSophocles Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
SophoclesSophocles You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SophoclesSophocles Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
SophoclesSophocles I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
SophoclesSophocles A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
SophoclesSophocles The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
SophoclesSophocles 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.
SophoclesSophocles Remember there is no success without hard work.
SophoclesSophocles How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
SophoclesSophocles Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
SophoclesSophocles The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SophoclesSophocles Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
SophoclesSophocles I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
SophoclesSophocles The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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And in the end when the money is gone – will you still stay it was worth it.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby My soul speaks a language, only you can understand.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale In another life, you kept your word, and forever’s still ours for the taking.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Journey with struggle becomes a great tale in the future.
Carla StokesCarla Stokes I’m not asking that you take the bullet for me. I wish you’d shoot first.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery A rainy day is the perfect excuse to explore deeper feelings.
Emily BockEmily Bock Stop taking care of everyone else before you take care of yourself.
Claire VinsonClaire Vinson Music is a weed, we all fallen souls are high on.
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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.
Steve MaraboliSteve Maraboli If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God’s sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich You can’t blame her for drifting away when you never asked her ship to stay. – abandonment ship.
Haley Ann WardHaley Ann Ward Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind.
Sri ChinmoySri Chinmoy Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.
Sri ChinmoySri Chinmoy Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser