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Quotes by Sophocles

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
 
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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man.

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
 
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Look and you shall find it; for what is unsought will go unseen.

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
 
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"One word frees us of all the weight an pain of life: That word is love."

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
 
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It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
 
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In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
Source: Oedipus Coloneus, 880.
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
Source: Scyrii. Fragment. 507.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
Source: Fragment. 737.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
Source: Fragment. 862.
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Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Sophocles : Greek tragic playwright
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC)
Source: Fragment. 854.
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