I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

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• Sophocles:

  There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

• Sophocles:

  The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

• Sophocles:

  Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

• Sophocles:

  In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

• Sophocles:

  The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

• St. Jerome:

  The scars of others should teach us caution.

• St. Jerome:

  Virginity can be lost by a thought.

• St. Jerome:

  Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

• St. Jerome:

  Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive

• St. Jerome:

  Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.