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Sophocles Quotes

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"A short saying oft contains much wisdom."
-Sophocles in Quotations quotes.
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;No wisdom but in submission to the gods.Big words are always punished,And proud men in old age learn to be wise."
-Sophocles in Age quotes.
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"To revive sorrow is cruel."
-Sophocles in Sorrow quotes.
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"To him who is in fear everything rustles."
-Sophocles in Fear quotes.
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"Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."
-Sophocles in Knowledge quotes.
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"He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life."
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"No man loves life like him that's growing old."
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"Success is dependent on effort."
-Sophocles in Success quotes.
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"How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!"
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"There is no success without hardship."
-Sophocles in Success quotes.
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"What you cannot enforce, do not command."
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"O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!"
-Sophocles in Generations quotes.
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"Numberless are the world's wonders, but noneMore wonderful than man."
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"Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,He's fit for public authority."
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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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"Men of ill judgment oft ignore the goodThat lies within their hands, till they have lost it."
-Sophocles in Lies quotes.
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"Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law."
-Sophocles in Politics quotes.
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"Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny."
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"Time eases all things."
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"Nobody likes the man who brings bad news."
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"Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money."
-Sophocles in Money quotes.
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"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable."
-Sophocles in Lies quotes.
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"Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it."
-Sophocles in Death quotes.
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"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."
-Sophocles in Grief quotes.
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"For God hates utterlyThe bray of bragging tongues."
-Sophocles in Conceit quotes.
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"The end excuses any evil."
-Sophocles in Evil quotes.
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"Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past."
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