All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.


The Antigone of Sophocles: an English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (ed. 1939)

Sophocles Quotes

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.