Sophocles Quotes

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way... view

By: Sophocles

There are some who praise a man free from disease.. view

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Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die... view

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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception... view

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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions... view

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud... view

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Reason is God's crowning gift to man... view

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Silence is an ornament for women... view

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Success is dependent on effort... view

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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily... view

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

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities... view

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The rewards of virtue alone abide secure... view

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love... view

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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words... view

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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water... view

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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat... view

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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... view

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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another... view

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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms... view

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No enemy is worse than bad advice... view

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There is a point at which even justice does injury... view

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No man loves the bearer of bad tidings... view

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No one longs to live more than someone growing old... view

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No lie ever reaches old age... view

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No speech can stain what is noble by nature... view

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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession... view

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Not all things are to be discovered.. view

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Not even Ares battles against necessity... view

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Not even old age knows how to love death... view

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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life... view

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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best... view

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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day... view

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Old age and the passage of time teach all things... view

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No one who errs unwillingly is evil... view

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness... view

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To him who is in fear everything rustles... view

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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool... view

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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes... view

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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?.. view

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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future... view

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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere... view

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