Sophocles's Quotes

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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There is no success without hardship.

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Success is dependent on effort.

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Always desire to learn something useful.

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Who seeks shall find.

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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

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To him who is in fear everything rustles.

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

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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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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

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A short saying often contains much wisdom.

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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

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The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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God's dice always have a lucky roll.

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Without labor nothing prospers.

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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

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