Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLESOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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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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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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