Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLESTime alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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