Author Topic: ~ Sophocles Quotes ~ (Read 2046 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:05:04 AM »

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:05:52 AM »

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:06:23 AM »

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:06:58 AM »

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:07:30 AM »

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:08:36 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:09:18 AM »

To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:18:01 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:18:28 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:19:46 AM »

When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:20:16 AM »

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:20:43 AM »

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend.

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:21:09 AM »

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:21:35 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** October 04, 2015, 08:26:11 AM »

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

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