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Greek
-
Poet
496 BC - 406 BC
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles
You
Look
Go
Will
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
Honor
Succeed
Fraud
Than
Fail
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
Happiness
Wisdom
Way
Our
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
Happiness
Man
Alive
Lost
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
Wisdom
Wealth
Any
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Sophocles
Truth
Knowledge
Help
How
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Wisdom
Saying
Short
Much
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Sophocles
Wisdom
Decisions
Quick
Unsafe
A lie never lives to be old.
Sophocles
Lie
Never
Old
Lives
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Sophocles
Justice
Injury
Which
Point
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
Sophocles
Democracy
Justice
Must
Our
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles
Work
Nothing
Without
Labor
Prospers
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
Success
Effort
Success Is
Dependent
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
Sophocles
Bad
Enemy
Advice
Than
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Sophocles
God
Man
Gift
Reason
Crowning
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles
Fear
Who
Everything
Him
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles
Love
Life
Pain
Us
For the dead there are no more toils.
Sophocles
Dead
More
Toils
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles
Good
Men
Hands
Know
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles
Powerful
Conscience
Us
Which
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles
Good
Man
Doing
Good Deeds
Doing Good
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles
Win
Honor
Cheating
Than
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophocles
Done
Why
No Sense
Cannot
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Sophocles
Always
Fall
Zeus
Dice
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Sophocles
Will
Strong
Beat
Just
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles
Good
Plant
Reason
Mankind
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