“One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
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Sophocles (circa. 496 BCE - 406 BCE) was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Sophocles wrote 120 or more plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form, namely Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-awarded playwright in the dramatic competitions of ancient Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. Sophocles competed in around thirty drama competitions; he won perhaps twenty four and never received lower than second place. Aeschylus won fourteen competitions and was defeated by Sophocles at times. Euripides won only four competitions.
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“One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
“Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.”
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
“How dangerous can false reasoning prove!”
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
“You win the victory when you yield to friends.”
“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.”
“Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.”
“When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.”
“Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.”
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
“Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.”
“One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.”
“Kindness gives birth to kindness.”
“All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.”
“Success is dependent on effort.”
“Time is a kindly god.”
“Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?”
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
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“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”