Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
SOPHOCLESEach 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.
More Sophocles Quotes
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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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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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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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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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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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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