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Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness (Sophocles Quotes)
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent (Sophocles Quotes)
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came (Sophocles Quotes)
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable (Sophocles Quotes)
Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day? (Sophocles Quotes)
What greater ornament to a son than a father’s glory, or to a father than a son’s honorable conduct? (Sophocles Quotes)
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart (Sophocles Quotes)
To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain (Sophocles Quotes)
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty (Sophocles Quotes)
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver (Sophocles Quotes)
All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils (Sophocles Quotes)
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven (Sophocles Quotes)
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men (Sophocles Quotes)
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in truth! (Sophocles Quotes)
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright (Sophocles Quotes)
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm (Sophocles Quotes)
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession (Sophocles Quotes)
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick (Sophocles Quotes)
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? (Sophocles Quotes)
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it (Sophocles Quotes)
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it (Sophocles Quotes)
One’s own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief (Sophocles Quotes)
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly (Sophocles Quotes)
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it (Sophocles Quotes)
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state (Sophocles Quotes)
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind (Sophocles Quotes)
You cannot know a man’s life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad (Sophocles Quotes)
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares (Sophocles Quotes)
The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away (Sophocles Quotes)
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise (Sophocles Quotes)