Sophocles Quotes - Page 5

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• Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

  Sophocles

  Fear, Men, Oedipus

  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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• Love, you mock us for your sport.

  Sophocles

  Sports, Love You, Mock

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.77, Penguin

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• It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

  Sophocles

  "Peleus". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 445,

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• Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

  Sophocles

  Support, Silence, Knows

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• A short saying often contains much wisdom.

  Sophocles

  Motivational, Success, Wisdom

  "Aletes". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 99,

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• Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

  Sophocles

  Fall, Prosperity, Destruction

  Sophocles (1848). “Sophocles”, p.122

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• Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

  Sophocles

  Grief, Grieving, Mind

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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• Opportunity has power over all things.

  Sophocles

  Opportunity, Belief, All Things

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• The good befriend themselves.

  Sophocles

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.159, University of Chicago Press

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• For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Kindness, Return

  Sophocles (1872). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose”, p.309

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• How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

  Sophocles

  Decision, Dangerous, Prove

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• You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Men, Eugenics

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• Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

  Sophocles

  Gratitude, Gains, Favour

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Book by Sophocles, 401 BC.

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• Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

  Sophocles

  Stewards, Thrifty, Goods

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

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  Work, Men, Acting

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• And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

  Sophocles

  Eye, Thinking, Stupidity

  "Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus".

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• Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

  Sophocles

  Safety, World, Safe

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.221, University of Chicago Press

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• Knowledge must come through action.

  Sophocles

  Action

  The Plays of Sophocles Trachiniae l. 589

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• As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!

  Sophocles

  Eye, Sight, Soul

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

  Sophocles

  Cherish, Truth Is

  Sophocles (2012). “Oedipus the King”, p.25, University of Chicago Press

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• The end excuses any evil.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Excuse, Ends

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• Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

  Sophocles

  Men, Hands, Excellence

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.69, Wildside Press LLC

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• Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

  Sophocles

  Men, Hands, House

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles: The Theban Plays”, p.252, Routledge

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• Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.

  Sophocles

  Law, Support

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• When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day,
  Edging slowly back and forth toward death?
  Anyone who warms their heart with the glow
  Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.
  The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

  Sophocles

  Heart, Men, Noble Man

  Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff (2007). “Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes”, p.23, Hackett Publishing

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