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One Quotes by Sophocles
- One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
- It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
- One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
- It is best to live however one can be.
- If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
- Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
- In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
- What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
- Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
- For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
- A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
- It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
- To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
- You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
- 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…
- It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
- If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
- A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
- No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
- No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
- 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,…
- Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
- One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
- For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
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