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• Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

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  Toil, Succeed, Remember

  Sophocles (2006). “The Complete Plays of Sophocles”, p.54, Bantam Classics

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• Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

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  Found You, Literature, Found

  Sophocles (2012). “Oedipus the King”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

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  Opportunity, Captains, Endeavor

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• Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

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  Wickedness, Foolishness

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1994). “Sophocles: Fragments”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Despair often breeds disease.

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  Despair, Disease

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• The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

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  Nurse, Evil, Soul

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• Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

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  Kindness, Secret Life, Goodness And Kindness

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• None love the messenger who brings bad news.

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  Love, News, Messengers

  Sophocles (2012). “Antigone”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.

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  Men, Joy, Departed

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• Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

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  Life, Live Life, Giving

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• A fearful man is always hearing things.

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  Men, Hearing Things, Hearing

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• Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

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  Helping, Cowardice, Fortune

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• Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

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  Self Reliance, Atman, Helping

  "Japan's Diplomacy: Ensuring Security and Prosperity". Speech by Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan, japan.kantei.go.jp. June 30, 2009.

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• And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

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  Eye, Thinking, Stupidity

  "Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus".

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• Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

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  Fear, Men, Oedipus

  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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• Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Gains, Favour

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Book by Sophocles, 401 BC.

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• Laziness is the mother of all evils.

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  Mother, Work, Evil

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• Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

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  Wise, Thinker

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• Always desire to learn something useful

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  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

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• There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

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  Justice, Unjust, Internet

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• Opportunity has power over all things.

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  Opportunity, Belief, All Things

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• Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

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  Next, Birth, Reckoning

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• Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

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  Evil, Pet, Want

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• Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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  Happiness, Happy, Way

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.69, University of Chicago Press

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