Sophocles quotes - page 8

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust. (Sophocles)
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
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The end excuses any evil.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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The good befriend themselves.
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It is not righteousness to outrageA brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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All men are liable to err. But when an error is made, that man is no longer unwise or unblessed who heals the evil into which he has fallen and does not remain stubborn.
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Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
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If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
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Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is. (Sophocles)
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
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There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
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Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
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Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
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No enemy is worse than bad advice.
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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. (Sophocles)
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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What you can't enforce, do not command.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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