I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SOPHOCLESFortune never helps the fainthearted.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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The good befriend themselves.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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