I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Quotes by Sophocles
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Success is dependent on effort.
Who seeks shall find.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
There is no success without hardship.
A human being is only breath and shadow.
There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
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