“How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.”
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Famous Sophocles Quotes
“In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.”
Source: Sophocles
“A mind at peace does not engender wars.”
Source: The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Source: The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations
“It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.”
Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.”
“A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.”
“Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.”