Sophocles quotes - page 8

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong. (Sophocles)
The end excuses any evil. View quote
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear. View quote
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Stranger in a strange country. View quote
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The good befriend themselves. View quote
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It is not righteousness to outrageA brave man dead, not even though you hate him. View quote
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All men are liable to err. But when an error is made, that man is no longer unwise or unblessed who heals the evil into which he has fallen and does not remain stubborn. View quote
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Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief. View quote
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If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. View quote
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Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is. View quote
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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. (Sophocles)
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad. View quote
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. View quote
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Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. View quote
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Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession. View quote
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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. View quote
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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow. View quote
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No enemy is worse than bad advice. View quote
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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected. View quote
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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. View quote
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. (Sophocles)
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. View quote
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What you can't enforce, do not command. View quote
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Kindness gives birth to kindness. View quote
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. View quote
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Sophocles

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Occupation: Greek Poet
Born: 496 BC
Died: 406 BC
Quotes count: 230
Wikipedia: Sophocles

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