Sophocles Quotes

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Blame Fate Fortune Worst
Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Hard Work Remember Success
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
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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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
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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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Failure Goodness Himself Man Wisdom
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Happiest Joy Thinking
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
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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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Friendship Love Myself Word
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth

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