A lie never lives to be old.
Sophocles
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
Sophocles
For the dead there are no more toils.
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Sophocles
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."
Sophocles
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Sophocles
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
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No enemy is worse than bad advice.
Sophocles
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Sophocles
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Sophocles
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
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Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Sophocles
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Sophocles
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophocles
There is no success without hardship.
Sophocles
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles
They command us, though they speak no words.
Sophocles
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles
What you cannot enforce, do not command!
Sophocles
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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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...
Sophocles
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Type:
Poet
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
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Nationality:
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