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Sophocles
Quotes
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Sophocles?
- → Success is dependent on effort.
- → Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- → Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
- → An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
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Pick the quote attributed to Sophocles.
- → It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
- → There is no success without hardship.
- → To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
- → A lie never lives to be old.
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Select the quotation attributed to Sophocles.
- → Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
- → It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
- → First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- → Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
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One of these may be attributed to Sophocles. Which one?
- → Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
- → It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
- → It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
- → He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
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Which one of these belongs to Sophocles?
- → Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
- → There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
- → Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
- → Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Sophocles?
- → Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
- → There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
- → A lie never lives to be old.
- → Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Sophocles.
- → Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
- → Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- → There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
- → A lie never lives to be old.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Sophocles. Which one?
- → Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
- → To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
- → Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- → Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Sophocles?
- → It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
- → There is no success without hardship.
- → Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
- → Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Sophocles.
- → Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
- → To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
- → Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- → Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Looks like Sophocles is the author of one of these.
- → The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
- → There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- → Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
- → Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Sophocles.
- → The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.
- → Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
- → Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
- → An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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Which one should be attributed to Sophocles?
- → A man growing old becomes a child again.
- → One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
- → All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
- → If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Sophocles?
- → Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
- → In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
- → What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- → If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Select the quote belonging to Sophocles.
- → One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- → The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
- → Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
- → One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Sophocles.
- → The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- → Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
- → Success is dependent on effort.
- → Life decreases in direct proportion to the force of desire.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Sophocles.
- → Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- → With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
- → The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- → Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Sophocles?
- → Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
- → There is no success without hardship.
- → To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
- → Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Sophocles. Pick one.
- → A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
- → A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
- → One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
- → The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to Sophocles.
- → Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- → Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
- → Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
- → Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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