Source: Dramas of Sophocles
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Source: Sophocles
“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.”
Source: Sophocles: Fragments
“The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.”
Source: Sophocles: Fragments
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues
Source: Sophocles Tragedies and Fragments
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre
Source: Antigone
Source: The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)
“Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.”
Source: Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes
“Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.”
Source: Dramas of Sophocles
“A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.”
“Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.”
“Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.”
“For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.”
“Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.”
Source: Dramas of Sophocles
“When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.”
“Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.”
Source: Ten Greek Plays
“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”
Source: Dramas of Sophocles
“Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”
Source: Sophocles
“Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.”
Source: Sophocles
“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
“Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
Source: Sophocles
“The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.”
Source: Sophocles
“It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.”
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.”
Source: The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.”