Sophocles Quotes

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Best Light Live Thinking
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Brave Heart Let Go
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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God Himself Love Rule Stand Wisdom
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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One Liner Remember Reward Success
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Dangerous Evidence Fake Reason
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Fools Love Remember Yourself
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself

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