I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.Sophocles
“The state which belongs to one man is no state at all.”
Playwright · 497 BC – 406 BC
Sophocles was an Athenian tragedian who wrote more than 120 plays, of which seven survive complete. Oedipus Rex and Antigone, his most famous works, set the pattern for Western tragedy.
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