Sophocles Quotes

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating

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

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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves

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Silence gives the proper grace to women

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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

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It is not righteousness to outragea brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

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Evil gains work their punishment.

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Success is dependent on effort.

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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions

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My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.

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

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