Without labor nothing prospers.

Quote by Sophocles

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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or...

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or...

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still...

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still...

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

No lie ever reaches old age.

No lie ever reaches old age.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

For the dead there are no more toils.

For the dead there are no more toils.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not...

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not...

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things...

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things...

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.