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• The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.

  Sophocles

  Men, Joy, Departed

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• To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

  Sophocles

  Evil

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• In a just cause it is right to be confident.

  Sophocles

  Confidence, Causes, Be Confident

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• In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

  Sophocles

  Darkness, Guilt, Doe

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

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• What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

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  Luxury, House, Excellence

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• Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

  Sophocles

  Good Friend, Turns

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• Evil gains work their punishment.

  Sophocles

  Punishment, Evil, Gains

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• Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.

  Sophocles

  Enemy

  'Ajax' l. 665

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• What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

  Sophocles

  Father, Son, Ornaments

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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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  Grief, Sadness, Sorrow

  "Scyrii". Play by Sophocles, fragment 510. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

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  Grief, Adversity, Trouble

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• It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

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  Speak, Dishonor, Good Sense

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

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• Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

  Sophocles

  Speech, Wells, Developmental

  Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.89

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• As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.

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  Sound, Blind

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.151, University of Chicago Press

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• The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Wisdom, Past

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• Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

  Sophocles

  Anger, Drug, Physicians

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• How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

  Sophocles

  Judging, Judgement, Antigone

  Antigone (c. 442 b.c.).

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• If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

  Sophocles

  Deeds, Ends, Wells

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• Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

  Sophocles

  Pain, Departed, Suffering

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• Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

  Sophocles

  Important

  Sophocles (1884). “Sophocles Antigone; Edited on the Basis of Wolff's Edition by Martin L. D'Ooge...”

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• The gods love those of ordered soul.

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  Order, Soul, God Love

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.294

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• Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

  Sophocles

  Men, World, Wonder

  Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Robert Whitelaw (1938). “Ten Greek Plays”

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• Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

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  Power, Men, Wind

  Sophocles (1905). “Tragedies”

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• Not even Ares battles against necessity.

  Sophocles

  Battle

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• No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

  Sophocles

  Sight, Darkness, Deeds

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.83, Sophocles

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