Sophocles Short Quotes

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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

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No man loves life like him that's growing old.

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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

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For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.

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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.

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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

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Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,
Befits proud birth.

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I will never reveal my dreadful secrets, or rather, yours.

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You are blind in your ears and mind, as well as your eyes.
Oedipus to Tiresias

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All that is and shall be,
And all the past, is his [Zeus's].

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War never slays a bad man in its course,
But the good always!

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

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When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

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Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

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It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

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The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

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More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

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To die would be good, but never to have been born would be better.

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If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

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It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

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Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

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