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All Quotes by author - Sophocles

" A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. "

" A human being is only breath and shadow. "

" Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. "

" A lie never lives to be old. "

" All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. "

" All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. "

" Always desire to learn something useful. "

" A man growing old becomes a child again. "

" A short saying often contains much wisdom. "

" A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. "

" A state is not a state if it belongs to one man. "

" A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. "

" A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. "

" A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. "

" Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven. "

" Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. "

" Better not to exist than live basely. "

" But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless. "

" 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. "

" Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. "

" Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief. "

" Despair often breeds disease. "

" Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly. "

" Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge? "

" Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good. "

" Even a poor man can receive honors. "

" Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. "

" Evil counsel travels fast. "

" Evil gains work their punishment. "

" Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. "

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