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Quotes by Sophocles

Sophocles

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

When a man has lost all happiness, hes not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

To be doing good deeds is mans most glorious task.

Gods dice always have a lucky roll.

Reason is Gods crowning gift to man.

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

To him who is in fear everything rustles.