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Sophocles Quotes about Friendship

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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Friendship, Kindness, Return

Sophocles (1872). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose”, p.309

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Friendship, Love Is

David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Friendship, Winning, Yield

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

Friendship, Men, Harbors

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Friendship, Honest, Honest Friends

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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

Friendship, Love Is, Cast Away

Sophocles (1837). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.19

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