SaturdayDec 21, 2024
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It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
There is no success without hardship.
If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Reason is Gods crowning gift to man.
Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right.
... 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.
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man.
The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life: that word is love.
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.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Nobody loves life like an old man.
Time alone can prove a just man just, though you can know a bad man in a day.
We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
What men have seen they know....
No oath too binding for a lover.
Look and you will find it what is unsought will go undetected.
Life is short but sweet.
It is hope which maintains most of mankind.
If you have committed iniquity, you must expect to suffer; for vengeance with its sacred light shines upon you.
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
A lie never lives to be old.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Truth is always straightforward.
Truth is always the strongest argument.
Without labor nothing prospers.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Not to be born is best. The second best is to have seen the light and then to go back quickly when we came.
Success is the reward of toil.
Marvels are many, but man is the greatest.
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