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• Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

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  Life, Men, Goal

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.173, Wildside Press LLC

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• Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

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  Love, Boxers, Fool

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• Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

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  Men, Looks, Fortune

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

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• Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

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  Light, Speech, Second Best

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.202, University of Chicago Press

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• For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

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  Friendship, Men, Harbors

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• Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

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  Children, Grief, Heart

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.307, Penguin

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• Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.

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  Hate, Men, Mind

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

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  Anger, Judgment, Gentle

  Sophocles, Robert POTTER (Prebendary of Norwich.) (1813). “The Tragedier of Sophocles; Translated by R. Potter. A New Edition”, p.217

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• Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

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  Men, Speech, Lows

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• Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

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  God, Men, Antigone

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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• Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?

  Sophocles

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• Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.

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  Trouble

  Sophocles (1838). “Plays: With Original Explanatory English Notes”, p.110

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• To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

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  Friendship, Honest, Honest Friends

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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• The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

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  Past, Expectations, Joy

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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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  Home, Men, Pay The Price

  Sophocles (2017). “Antigone”, p.10, Youcanprint

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• Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

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  Men, Ruins, Gains

  Antigone, 222 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

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• You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

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  Regret, Hate, Anger

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• How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

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  Doe, Benefits, Terrible

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• There are times when even justice brings harm with it.

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  Justice, Harm

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

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• Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

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  Men, Demise, He Man

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• Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

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  Eye, Crafts, Blind

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Book by Oedipus at Colonus, 401 BC.

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• If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

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  Age, Deeds, Looks

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• If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

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  Shine Bright, Light, Shining

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

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  Knowledge, Oedipus, Ontology

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

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• True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

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  Worst

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.265, Sophocles

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