Quotes by Sophocles

Sophocles

Greek poet

Lived from: 496 - 406

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: Greece

Quotes 21 till 32 of 32.

• The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

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

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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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• There is no success without hardship.

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

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• To him who is in fear everything rustles.

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• Truth is always the strongest argument.

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• What you cannot enforce, do not command.

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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.

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• Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

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• 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...

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Subjects in these quotes:

• destruction
• remorseless
• conscience
• strongest
• therefore
• happiness

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