Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Success is dependent on effort.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
There is no success without hardship.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Who seeks shall find.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
A human being is only breath and shadow.
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
Silence is an ornament for women.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Better not to exist than live basely.
A lie never lives to be old.
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Despair often breeds disease.
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
