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Inspirational Quotes by Sophocles

54 Inspirational quotes by Sophocles

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Sophocles warns that bad reasoning can be dangerous and that we often cannot predict the day ahead. He urges us to meet fate with courage and to remember that thoughts can be stronger than physical strength. He also notes that the worst pain often comes from our own actions.

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

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Obedience to authority saves many skins

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What men have seen they know. . . .

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In season, all is good.

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Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

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To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

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If they are just, they are better than clever.

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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

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If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

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Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly,…

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It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

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“Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you. All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong…

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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

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To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

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Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

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Kindness begets kindness evermore.

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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

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The truth is ever best.

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Opportunity has power over all things.

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Success is the reward for toil.

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Ill-gotten gains work evil.

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An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

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Great Time makes all things dim.

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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

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The tyrant is a child of pride.

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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

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Kindness will always attract kindness.

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Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

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For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

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A fearful man is always hearing things.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.