Famous Quotes / Sophocles
87 Quotations by Sophocles
- 41. One must learn by doing the thing. For though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you ...
- 42. One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
- 43. One word
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- 44. One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
- 45. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- 46. Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
- 47. Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until ...
- 48. Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- 49. Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
- 50. Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
- 51. Seize the hour.
- 52. Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
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- 53. Stranger in a strange country.
- 54. Success is dependent on effort.
- 55. Success, remember, is the reward of toil.
- 56. The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
- 57. The end excuses any evil.
- 58. The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
- 59. The good befriend themselves.
- 60. The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.