I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
SOPHOCLESFear? 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.
More Sophocles Quotes
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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In season, all is good.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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