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Sophocles QUOTES

  • Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

  • To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

  • It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

  • No speech can stain what is noble by nature.



  • Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

  • Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

  • There is no success without hardship.

  • Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

  • Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

  • Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

  • Always desire to learn something useful.

  • Who seeks shall find.

  • The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

  • A man growing old becomes a child again.

  • Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

  • The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

  • One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

  • There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

  • Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

  • Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.


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