Sophocles quotes

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. (Sophocles)
Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life that word is love.
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
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There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong. (Sophocles)
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
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Knowledge must come through action you can have no test, which is not fanciful save by trial.
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. (Sophocles)
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old.
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There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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