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It’s a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong (Sophocles Quotes)
No enemy is worse than bad advice (Sophocles Quotes)
There is a point at which even justice does injury (Sophocles Quotes)
I will never reveal my dreadful secrets, or rather, yours (Sophocles Quotes)
Time eases all things (Sophocles Quotes)
A short saying oft contains much wisdom (Sophocles Quotes)
What you cannot enforce, do not command (Sophocles Quotes)
There is no old age for a man’s anger, Only death (Sophocles Quotes)
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life (Sophocles Quotes)
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away (Sophocles Quotes)
None loves the messenger who brings bad news (Sophocles Quotes)
You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the words (Sophocles Quotes)
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies (Sophocles Quotes)
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds (Sophocles Quotes)
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved (Sophocles Quotes)
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes (Sophocles Quotes)
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise (Sophocles Quotes)
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 (Sophocles Quotes)
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal (Sophocles Quotes)
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well (Sophocles Quotes)
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day (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)
The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself (Sophocles Quotes)
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. (Sophocles Quotes)
Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul’s life is gone. (Sophocles Quotes)
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships. (Sophocles Quotes)
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man’s life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched. (Sophocles Quotes)
If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool (Sophocles Quotes)
There is no greater evil than men’s failure to consult and to consider (Sophocles Quotes)
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities (Sophocles Quotes)