The following 19 quotes match your criteria:
| Author: Sophocles |
| Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right. |
| Antigone, 706.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. |
| Electra, 1007.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man’s life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched. |
| Trachiniæ, 1.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| In a just cause the weak o’ercome the strong. |
| Œdipus Coloneus, 880.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| A lie never lives to be old. |
| Acrisius. Frag. 59.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| Nobody loves life like an old man. |
| Acrisius. Frag. 63.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| A short saying oft contains much wisdom. |
| Aletes. Frag. 99.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. |
| Hipponous. Frag. 280.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced. |
| Peleus. Frag. 445.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| War loves to seek its victims in the young. |
| Scyrii. Frag. 507.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. |
| Scyrii. Frag. 510.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. |
| Phædra. Frag. 619.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| The truth is always the strongest argument. |
| Phædra. Frag. 737.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily. |
| Phædra. Frag. 809.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. |
| Phædra. Frag. 842.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| No oath too binding for a lover. |
| Phædra. Frag. 848.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. |
| Phædra. Frag. 854.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck. |
| Phædra. Frag. 862.
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| Author: Sophocles |
| If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles. |
| Vit. Anon. p. 64
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