Sophocles - Time Quotes

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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

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The immortal
Gods alone have neither age nor death!
All other things almighty Time disquiets.

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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

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But it is a pleasant thing to get the prize of victory; be daring—in time we shall be shown to have been in the right.

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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

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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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