Quotes by Sophocles

Sophocles

Sophocles

Greek poet

Lived from: 496 - 406

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagGreece

  • One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

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  • A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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  • In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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  • Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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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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  • Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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  • For the dead there are no more toils.
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  • Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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  • I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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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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  • It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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  • Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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  • Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
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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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  • None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
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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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  • One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
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  • Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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  • Success is dependent on effort.
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  • Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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