Sophocles quotes - page 3

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life. (Sophocles)
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.
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Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope. (Sophocles)
Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
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To a man who is afraid everything rustles.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Evil sometimes seems good To a man whose mind A god leads to destruction.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Nobly to live, or else nobly to die, Befits proud birth.
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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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Ah, son, may you prove luckier than your father, but in all else like him. Then you would not prove base.
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I will never reveal my dreadful secrets, or rather, yours. (Sophocles)
Not to be born is, beyond all estimation, best; but when a man has seen the light of day, this is next best by far, that with utmost speed he should go back from where he came.
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How about your service of Aphrodite, Sophocles-is your natural force still unabated?" And he replied, 'Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master.
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Our ship of fate, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last.
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For whoso lives, as I, in many woes, How can it be but death shall bring him gain?
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