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Than Quotes by Sophocles
- One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
- I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
- Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
- Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
- I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
- There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
- Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
- If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
- Better not to exist than live basely.
- No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
- There is no greater evil than anarchy.
- There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
- No enemy is worse than bad advice.
- I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
- Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
- If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than…
- Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
- A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
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