Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLESOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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The good befriend themselves.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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There is no success without hardship.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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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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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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