Sophocles
Sophocles

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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Sophocles

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

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Sophocles

Success is dependent on effort.

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Sophocles

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

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Sophocles

Without labor nothing prospers.

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Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.

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Sophocles

There is no success without hardship.

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Sophocles

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

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Sophocles

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

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Sophocles

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

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Sophocles

Who seeks shall find.

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Sophocles

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

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Sophocles

A human being is only breath and shadow.

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Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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Sophocles

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

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Sophocles

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

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Sophocles

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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Sophocles

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

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Sophocles

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

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Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.