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Quotes by Sophocles

Sophocles

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.

Sophocles

Who seeks shall find.

Sophocles

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Sophocles

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Sophocles

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

Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Sophocles

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Sophocles

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

Sophocles

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

Sophocles

“The truth is what I cherish and thats my strength”

Sophocles

“Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?”

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“Not from Hades black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?”

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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 worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”

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