Sophocles Quotes - Page 12

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• Even a poor man can receive honors.

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  Men, Honor, Poor

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• Time is a kindly God.

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  Time

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.148, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

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  Errors, Evil, Common

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• God's dice always have a lucky roll.

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  Lucky, Dice

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• There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Age

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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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  Men, May, Ruins

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

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  Enemy, Mockery, Sweetest

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• I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

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  Hate, Born, Love Not Hate

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.63, Penguin

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• Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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  Doe, Reverence, Mortals

  "The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks". Book by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 69, December 15, 2008.

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• Success is the reward for toil.

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  Toil, Rewards, Classroom

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• The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

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  Sleep, Eye, Men

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.250, University of Chicago Press

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• If they are just, they are better than clever.

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  Clever, Justice, Ifs

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

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  Noble, Impossible, Speak

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• We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

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  Time, Memories, Waiting

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• A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

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  Theatre, Actors, May

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• Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

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  Men, Pleasure

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• Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.

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  Wind, Flying, Misfortunes

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

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  Advice, Watches, Trouble

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

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• To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

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  Hope, Men, Deception

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• Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

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  Kings, Pain, Grief

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• Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.

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  Mind, Tasks, Needs

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• Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

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  Children, Justice, Limits

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• Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

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  Lying, Men, Hands

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• The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

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  Rewards, Virtue, Secure

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• It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

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  Hair, Panic, Made

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.217, University of Chicago Press

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