FridayFeb 13, 2026
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Marvels are many, but man is the greatest.
Success is the reward of toil.
Not to be born is best. The second best is to have seen the light and then to go back quickly when we came.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Truth is always the strongest argument.
Truth is always straightforward.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
A lie never lives to be old.
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
If you have committed iniquity, you must expect to suffer; for vengeance with its sacred light shines upon you.
It is hope which maintains most of mankind.
Life is short but sweet.
Look and you will find it what is unsought will go undetected.
No oath too binding for a lover.
What men have seen they know....
We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
Time alone can prove a just man just, though you can know a bad man in a day.
Nobody loves life like an old man.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life: that word is love.
The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man.
... all men make mistakes. But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right.
Reason is Gods crowning gift to man.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.
There is no success without hardship.
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
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