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Famous Sophocles Quotes

# I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
# Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
# There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
# But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
# A human being is only breath and shadow.
# A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. More
# Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.
# I do not care for such speech in the midst of ills; harsh words, even when just, still sting.
# For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.
# Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death—what pleasure does it...
# A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad. More
# A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
# Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
# It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can...
# You win the victory when you yield to friends.
# Hold, you rule only when mastered by your friends.
# Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
# Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
# If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of...
# For those who are base in judgement do not know the good they hold in their hands until they cast...
# Silence is an ornament for women.
# Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
# Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you...
# Isn’t it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
# Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits...
# I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
# Since he aims at great souls, he cannot miss. But if someone should slander me in this way, no...
# Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
# There is no greater evil than anarchy.
# Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
# But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor...
# To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven...
# Evil gains work their punishment.
# Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of...
# I have seen the impassioned curbed with a small bit.
# You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
# To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain...
# Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere. More
# No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
# Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of...
# A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
# Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
# These things are in the future; we needs must do what lies at hand.
# For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
# Obedience to authority saves many skins.

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