Sophocles

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

— Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

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Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

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Who seeks shall find.

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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

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Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

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When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

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A lie never lives to be old.

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

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A short saying often contains much wisdom.

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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

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The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength

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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

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To him who is in fear everything rustles.

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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

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How about your service of Aphrodite, Sophocles—is your natural force still unabated?" And he replied, 'Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master.

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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

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The truth is always the strongest argument.

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The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.

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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

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No oath can be too binding for a lover.

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Always desire to learn something useful.

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Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

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

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Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth!

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

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The tyrant is a child of Pride He plummets to the dust of hope.

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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.

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A man growing old becomes a child again.

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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.

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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

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Time eases all things.

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Let every man in mankind's frailty Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

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For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

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Our ship of fate, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last.

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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare — I have no use for him, either.

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Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

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

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Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

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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.

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It is a good thing To bring death to a friend.

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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

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Evil sometimes seems good A god leads to destruction.

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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

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

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The ideal condition The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

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Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

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Not to be born is, beyond all estimation, best; but when a man has seen the light of day, this is next best by far, that with utmost speed he should go back from where he came.

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One word That word is love.

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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

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Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

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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.

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In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.

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

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War loves to seek its victims in the young.

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If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

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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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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

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Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

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Who seeks shall find.

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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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Always desire to learn something useful.

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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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