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Sophocles
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Obedience to authority saves many skins
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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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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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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