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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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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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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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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