Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
SOPHOCLESDo not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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