Source: Dramas of Sophocles
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Famous Sophocles Quotes
“It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.”
Source: Sophocles Tragedies and Fragments
“For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.”
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose
Source: Antigone
“Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?”
Source: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.”
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
Source: Sophocles
Source: Sophocles
“Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”
Source: Sophocles
“Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.”
Source: Sophocles
“What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
Source: The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations
“You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.”
“It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.”
“What men have seen they know. . . .”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
Source: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.”
Source: Sophocles
“Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?”