Sophocles quotes - page 5

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. (Sophocles)
Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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When trouble ends even troubles please.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm. (Sophocles)
It is best to live however one can be.
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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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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No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
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Evil counsel travels fast.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
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To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. (Sophocles)
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
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No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
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