Quotes by Sophocles

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

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Silence is an ornament for women.

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Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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

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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the...

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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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