Famous Quotes / Sophocles
87 Quotations by Sophocles
- 21. Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
- 22. It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has m ...
- 23. It is not righteousness to outrage
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- 24. It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
- 25. It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
- 26. Kindness gives birth to kindness.
- 27. Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
- 28. Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
- 29. Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
- 30. Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
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- 31. Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
- 32. Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
- 33. Much wisdom often goes with fewer words
- 34. No man loves life like him that's growing old.
- 35. Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
- 36. None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
- 37. Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
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- 38. O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!
- 39. Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
- 40. One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.