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

  Sophocles

  Life, Cheating, Failure

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

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  Life, Love You, Deeds

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• Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

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  Decision, Quick Decisions, Unsafe

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• Remember there is no success without hard work.

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  Hard Work, Remember, Hard

  Electra, 945 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

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• No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

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  Cheating, Cheat, Treaties

  "Fragments", l (671),

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• Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

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  Kindness, Secret Life, Goodness And Kindness

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• Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

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  Money, Home, Men

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• What greater wound is there than a false friend?

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  False Friends, Greater, Wounds

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• No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Wounds

  Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

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  Gratitude, Lying, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

  Sophocles

  Evening, Kind, Knows

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• I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

  Sophocles

  Reality, Suffering, Desire

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

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  Grief, Greatness, Worry

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

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  Sides, Fortune, Hearted

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 842,

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• It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Marriage, Speaking Well

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

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  Men, States, One Man

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• A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Doctors, Knives

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• Kindness will always attract kindness.

  Sophocles

  Kindness

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• All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

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  Men, Evil, Wish

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

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  Soul, Self Improvement, Glory

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• Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Not Knowing

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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• Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

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  Men, Might, Alone Time

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• Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

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  Toil, Succeed, Remember

  Sophocles (2006). “The Complete Plays of Sophocles”, p.54, Bantam Classics

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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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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• No man loves life like him that's growing old.

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  Love Life, Men, Age

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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