Famous Quotes / Sophocles
87 Quotations by Sophocles
- 61. The ideal condition
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- 62. The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- 63. The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to ...
- 64. There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
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- 65. There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
- 66. There is no success without hardship.
- 67. There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
- 68. Time eases all things.
- 69. To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
- 70. To him who is in fear everything rustles.
- 71. To revive sorrow is cruel.
- 72. To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
- 73. To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
- 74. Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
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- 75. Truth is always the strongest argument.
- 76. Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
- 77. What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
- 78. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- 79. When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
- 80. Who does not befriend himself by doing good?