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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
SOPHOCLES

Coward Fortune
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Day Honesty Oneself Space Test Time
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
SOPHOCLES

Blame Fate Fortune Worst
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
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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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
SOPHOCLES

Brave Heart Let Go
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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God Himself Love Rule Stand Wisdom
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
SOPHOCLES

Expose Hide Reality Time
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
SOPHOCLES

Death Evil Live Myself Source

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