Sophocles Quotes and Quotations
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. Time is a kindly god. Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness? When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Wisdom is the most important part of happiness. Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. You win the victory when you yield to friends. To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away. Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend. Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it. What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes! The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Seize the hour. Kindness gives birth to kindness. How dangerous can false reasoning prove! All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it. Why should a man fear, since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can, unthinking. One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. Success is dependent on effort. Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. Success is dependent on effort. I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself. Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad. Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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