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SOPHOCLES
Greek tragic poet
(c. 496 BC - 406 BC)
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
      - [Acting]

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
      - [Circumstance]

As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!
      - [Mind]

Be sure no lie can ever reach old age.
      - [Lying]

Chance never helps those who do riot help themselves.
      - [Chance]

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
      - [Gifts]

God's dice always have a lucky roll.
      - [Luck]

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
      - [Judgment]

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating.
      - [Honor]

In a just cause it is right to be confident.
      - [Confidence]

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
      - [Strength]

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
      - [Shame]

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.
      - [Woe]

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
      - [Goodness]

Kindness gives birth to kindness.
      - [Kindness]

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
      - [Kindness]

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial.
      - [Knowledge]

Look, and you will find it--what is unsought will go undetected.
      - [Discovery]

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.
      - [Stubbornness]

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
      - [Money]

No honest man will argue on every side.
      - [Argument]

No man loves life like him that's growing old.
      - [Aging]

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
      - [Law]

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
      - [News]

Observe, without labor nothing prospers.
      - [Labor]


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