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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.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Buffets, Against Love

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.290, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A mind at peace does not engender wars.

  Sophocles

  War, Mind, Doe

  Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• If you try to cure evil with evil
  you will add more pain to your fate.

  Sophocles

  Pain, Fate, Evil

  Sophocles, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2010). “The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays”, p.40, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

  Sophocles

  Kindness, Real, Acceptance

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

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• The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

  Sophocles

  Reason, Plant, Mankind

  Sophocles (1993). “Antigone”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

  Sophocles

  Children, Pride, Vanity

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

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• You win the victory when you yield to friends.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Winning, Yield

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

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• Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

  Sophocles

  Sleep, Medicine, Giving

  Philoctetes 766 (transl. F. Storr)

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• Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

  Sophocles

  Gossip, News, Likes

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.31, University of Chicago Press

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

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  "Women of Trachis". Play by Sophocles, Lines 592-593,

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• Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Time, Age

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• Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Attitude, Men

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• It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

  Sophocles

  Life, Pain, Adversity

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

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• All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

  Sophocles

  Life, Rocks, One Day

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• Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.

  Sophocles

  Love, Girl, Night

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

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• If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

  Sophocles

  Men, Discipline, Ifs

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

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• Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

  Sophocles

  Men, Missing, Strikes

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

  Sophocles

  Death, Drawing, Enough

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

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• There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

  Sophocles

  Misery, Pleasure, Forgetfulness

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• When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

  Sophocles

  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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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.

  Sophocles

  Men, Use, Kind

  "Antigone". Play by Sophocles, Line 181,

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• A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

  Sophocles

  Life, Men, Prudent

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• Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

  Sophocles

  Destiny

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

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• Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

  Sophocles

  Money, Men, Cities

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• He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

  Sophocles

  Loyalty, Bad Friend

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