Sophocles Quotes

• It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

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• When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

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• Remember there is no success without hard work.

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• Love invincible in battle.

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• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

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• One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

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• Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

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• Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

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• Woman, silence makes a woman beautiful.

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• A city which belongs to just one man is no true city.

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• To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

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• A lie never grows old.

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• One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

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• A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

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• A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

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  One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

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• The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.

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• We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

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  Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

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• A fearful man is always hearing things.

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Birth:	496 BC
Death:	406 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Playwright, Poet

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