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

Sophocles

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
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.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
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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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
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
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement

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

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