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Sophocles
Quotes by Sophocles
Quotes by Sophocles
“Always desire to learn something useful.”
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“A man growing old becomes a child again.”
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“Success is dependent on effort.”
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“Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.”
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“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”
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“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”
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“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”
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“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”
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“Who seeks shall find.”
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“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.”
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“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”
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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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“All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”
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“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”
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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.”
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“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.”
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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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“Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.”
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“A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.”
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“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.”
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“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”
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“There is no success without hardship.”
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“It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.”
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“Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.”
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“Better not to exist than live basely.”
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“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.”
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“You should not consider a man's age but his acts.”
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“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
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“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
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“When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse”
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