Sophocles Quotes

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  All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

  Sophocles

  Mistake, Character, Pride

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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  The truth is always the strongest argument.

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  Truth, Understanding, Prussia

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 737,

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• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Honor

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

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  Kindness, Helping Others, Luck

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• What people believe prevails over the truth.

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  Truth, Believe, Divorce

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.

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  Beautiful, Deeds, Humans

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• You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

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  Pain, Suffering, Remember

  Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff (2003). “Theban Plays”, p.204, Hackett Publishing

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• Tomorrow is tomorrow.
  Future cares have future cures,
  And we must mind today.

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  Mind, Care, Today

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles”, Signet

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• Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

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  Stupidity, Twins, Stubbornness

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Communication

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• Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

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  Men, Blind, Every Man

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• Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

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  Ignorance, Evil, Tough

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

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  Inspirational, Education, Wise

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

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  Heart, Thinking, Spirit

  Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”

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• A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

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  Communication, Men, Thinking

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• What you can't enforce, do not command.

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  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

  Sophocles

  Water, Oath

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• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Pain

  "Oedipus Rex". Play by Sophocles, Line 1184,

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

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  Time, Secret, Secrecy

  "Hipponous". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 280,

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• In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

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  Strong, Weak Will, Causes

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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  Men, Evil, Wish

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• A lie never lives to be old.

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  Life, Lying

  "Acrisius". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 59,

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• The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Loss

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

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  Truth, Hate, Delay

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