Sophocles quotes - page 6

For the dead there are no more toils. (Sophocles)
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
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It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
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If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick. (Sophocles)
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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There is no success without hardship. (Sophocles)
Who seeks shall find.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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