Sophocles Quotes

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Born: 497 BC

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Sophocles Quotes (9)

"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."

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Topic: Best

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

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Topic: Fear

"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."

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Topic: God

"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

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Topic: Money

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."

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Topic: Mother's Day

"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."

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Topic: Sad

"Success is dependent on effort."

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Topic: Success

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."

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Topic: Time

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."

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Topic: Trust
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