Sophocles Quotes

The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Action Fancy Knowledge Test Trial Yourself
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman
I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
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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Administration Fear Law Man Obedience People Stand State
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
In season, all is good.
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Goodness One Liner Season
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize

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