Source: Sophocles
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Famous Sophocles Quotes
Source: Antigone
“Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.”
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues
“Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.”
Source: Sophocles: The Theban Plays
“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.”
“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.”
Source: Sophocles
“God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus