The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
SOPHOCLESFortune never helps the fainthearted.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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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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