Quotes with sophocles

Quotes 21 till 34 of 34.

• The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• 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.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• 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
  King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
  - +

   0
• There is no success without hardship.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• To him who is in fear everything rustles.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• Truth is always the strongest argument.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• What you cannot enforce, do not command.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• 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
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

  Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
  - +

   0
• 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
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
  - +

  -1

Subjects in these quotes:

• gesticulating
• remorseless
• conscience
• particular
• introduces
• therefore

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations