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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.


Sophocles

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BRANDON SANDERSON A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
KHALED HOSSEINI The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
LEON BLUM The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he...
NELSON MANDELA Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything b...
LEO TOLSTOY There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
MARK TWAIN The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
MARK TWAIN The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
EDWARD PHELPS The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
EDWARD J. PHELPS The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
E. J. PHELPS Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
SOURCE UNKNOWN Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
ANONYMOUS Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
EMILY DICKINSON Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
A just man is not one who does no ill, but he, who with the power, has not the will
PHILEMON No man is happy who does not think himself so.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.
PROVERB Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.
HASIDIC PROVERB A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear
CARLY FIORINA Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no f...
PIERS ANTHONY If you say your a man of your word and in the end you have no words what does that make you
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RAMANA MAHARSHI Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion...
MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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JOHN STEINBECK I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedicatio...
JOHN STEINBECK What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
JACK CLEARY A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
ANONYMOUS I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kic...
BRUCE LEE The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not ever...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
ROBERT HEINLEIN He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER No man fails who does his best...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man fails who does his best.
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AYN RAND A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
OSCAR WILDE Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be plea...
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN Fear not the man who fears God, but the one who fears you.
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DON HEROLD It's so difficult to express in word as how it feels bad to go to bed in the night after the whole d...
ANUJ SOMANY Then this God does exist according to you?"
"He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there i...
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N.K. JEMISIN History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living m...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
GEORGE ELIOT There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T.S. ELIOT One who does not obey the parents’ word will be taught by the world.
VIKRANT PARSAI When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.
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GEORGES CLEMENCEAU No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man!
MAO ZEDONG Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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VICTOR HUGO No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher
HENRY WARD BEECHER He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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There is no success without hardship.
SOPHOCLES Ignorant menDont know what good they hold in their hands untilTheyve flung it away.
SOPHOCLES I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
SOPHOCLES For the dead there are no more toils.
SOPHOCLES What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
SOPHOCLES Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
SOPHOCLES The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to ...
SOPHOCLES Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven ...
SOPHOCLES A short saying often contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES Truth is always the strongest argument.
SOPHOCLES Success, remember is the reward of toil.
SOPHOCLES Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to
SOPHOCLES All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...
SOPHOCLES One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
SOPHOCLES To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
SOPHOCLES None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES No enemy is worse than bad advice.
SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
SOPHOCLES There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
SOPHOCLES Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
SOPHOCLES Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as...
SOPHOCLES The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating
SOPHOCLES Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law
SOPHOCLES When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, <...
SOPHOCLES Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLES It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul...
SOPHOCLES In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
SOPHOCLES Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dis...
SOPHOCLES The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLES Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SOPHOCLES Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SOPHOCLES Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLES Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
SOPHOCLES The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SOPHOCLES If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a ...
SOPHOCLES A man growing old becomes a child again.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends.
SOPHOCLES Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
SOPHOCLES Who seeks shall find.
SOPHOCLES Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
SOPHOCLES Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES Success is dependent on effort.
SOPHOCLES Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLES A human being is only breath and shadow.
SOPHOCLES A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
SOPHOCLES To touch the quick.
SOPHOCLES We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
SOPHOCLES If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil than anarchy.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
SOPHOCLES All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
SOPHOCLES All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
SOPHOCLES There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,
When it finds its nest left empt and little o...
SOPHOCLES For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SOPHOCLES Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
SOPHOCLES The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all li...
SOPHOCLES Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
SOPHOCLES Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest d...
SOPHOCLES To revive sorrow is cruel.
SOPHOCLES Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
SOPHOCLES I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...
SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
SOPHOCLES Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
SOPHOCLES For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
SOPHOCLES Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
SOPHOCLES To him who is in fear everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old.
SOPHOCLES What you cannot enforce, do not command.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
SOPHOCLES Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big w...
SOPHOCLES Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until ...
SOPHOCLES Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
SOPHOCLES A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
SOPHOCLES Time eases all things.
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
SOPHOCLES The good befriend themselves.
SOPHOCLES Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLES One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
SOPHOCLES It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
SOPHOCLES The end excuses any evil.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
SOPHOCLES The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are ...
SOPHOCLES To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by i...
SOPHOCLES Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
SOPHOCLES To a man who is afraid everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass life's goal.
SOPHOCLES They command us, though they speak no words.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause the weak will beat the strong
SOPHOCLES War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always
SOPHOCLES Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it f...
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words a...
SOPHOCLES There is a point at which even justice does injury.
SOPHOCLES One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try
SOPHOCLES It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SOPHOCLES Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause it is right to be confident
SOPHOCLES There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust
SOPHOCLES It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has mad...
SOPHOCLES Silence gives the proper grace to women
SOPHOCLES Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by th...
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the bringer of bad news
SOPHOCLES There are many wonderful things, but none is more wonderful than man
SOPHOCLES Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
SOPHOCLES The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right,...
SOPHOCLES Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLES Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn
SOPHOCLES No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforw...
SOPHOCLES No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SOPHOCLES It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
SOPHOCLES If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would b...
SOPHOCLES It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
SOPHOCLES To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
SOPHOCLES Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune
SOPHOCLES It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLES Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
SOPHOCLES Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew ...
SOPHOCLES No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
SOPHOCLES No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
SOPHOCLES Even a poor man can receive honors.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
SOPHOCLES If you are out of trouble, watch for danger
SOPHOCLES There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;
States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins...
SOPHOCLES The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,...
SOPHOCLES AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.

ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuv...
SOPHOCLES Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
SOPHOCLES I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...
SOPHOCLES Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to ...
SOPHOCLES Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best li...
SOPHOCLES The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
SOPHOCLES For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a ...
SOPHOCLES Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
SOPHOCLES The only crime is pride.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom
SOPHOCLES No honest man will argue on every side
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLES Time is a kindly God
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
SOPHOCLES Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old
SOPHOCLES God's dice always have a lucky roll
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
SOPHOCLES You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
SOPHOCLES It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
SOPHOCLES Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
B...
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great wor...
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to a man...
SOPHOCLES Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...
SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man; the storm gray sea
Y...
SOPHOCLES I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.
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