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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds (Sophocles Quotes)
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day (Sophocles Quotes)
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money (Sophocles Quotes)
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that (Sophocles Quotes)
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away (Sophocles Quotes)
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth (Sophocles Quotes)
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it (Sophocles Quotes)
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse (Sophocles Quotes)
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day (Sophocles Quotes)
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them (Sophocles Quotes)
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial (Sophocles Quotes)
It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love (Sophocles Quotes)
Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil (Sophocles Quotes)
Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come? (Sophocles Quotes)
When an oath is taken... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods (Sophocles Quotes)
For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one’s own life, which one loves best (Sophocles Quotes)
It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best (Sophocles Quotes)
One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite (Sophocles Quotes)
You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all (Sophocles Quotes)
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend (Sophocles Quotes)
Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father’s (Sophocles Quotes)
Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he’s my enemy. He’s yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows (Sophocles Quotes)
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let’s just say I’ve been accused of folly by a fool (Sophocles Quotes)
No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he’s down. Where’s the glory, killing the dead twice over? (Sophocles Quotes)
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it (Sophocles Quotes)
Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad (Sophocles Quotes)
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss (Sophocles Quotes)
What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods (Sophocles Quotes)
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly (Sophocles Quotes)
Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king (Sophocles Quotes)