Sophocles
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Sophocles
To be doing good deeds is man s most glorious task.
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Deeds and Good Deeds
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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Conscience
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
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Fear
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
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Gambling
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Forgiveness
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Life and Living
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Failure
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Judgment and Judges
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
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Love
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Self-reliance
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Kindness
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Kindness
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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Leaders and Leadership
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
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Knowledge
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Honesty
None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
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News
Truth is always the strongest argument.
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Truth
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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Prosperity
Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
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Possibilities
There is no success without hardship.
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Success
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Success
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Proverbs
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Reason
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Purpose
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Speakers and Speaking
Ignorant men don t know what good they hold in their hands until they ve flung it away.
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Appreciation
For the dead there are no more toils.
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Death and Dying
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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Action
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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Wisdom
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
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Wonder