Sophocles - Life Quotes

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One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.

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Someone asked Sophocles, 'How is your sex-life now? Are you still able to have a woman?' He replied, 'Hush, man; most gladly indeed am I rid of it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.'

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The happiest life is lived while one understands nothing, before one learns delight or pain.

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No man loves life like him that's growing old.

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Let every man in mankind's frailty Consider his last day; and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

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Ships are only hulls, high walls are nothing, When no life moves in the empty passageways.

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There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

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Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

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It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

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No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

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For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

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Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

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We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

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