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Sophocles quotes, quotations, sayings

Success is dependent on effort.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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None love the bearer of bad news.
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Truth is always the strongest argument.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial Sophocles
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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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I was happy to be a sophomore and to be the Valley District player of the year.
Devon Brown
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Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
Sophocles
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old.
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How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
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My freshman year, we started four freshmen; sophomore year, we started four sophomores. I'm so happy we ended up with a state championship.
Jawan Carter
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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Sophocles
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Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!
Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
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One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles, Antigone
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles, Antigone
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The good befriend themselves.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, ''How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it?'' to which he replied, ''Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master.'' I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
Plato
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
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For the dead there are no more toils.
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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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To him who is in fear everything rustles.
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
Edgar Allan Poe
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Frederick The Great (Frederick II)
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Sophocles
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