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Famous Sophocles Quotes
“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
“Reason is God's crowning gift to man.”
“It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.”
“Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.”
“Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.”
“From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape”
“A man is nothing but breath and shadow.”
“Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”
“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.”
“Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.”
“What men have seen they know. . . .”
“To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.”
“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise”
“But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.”
“If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.”
“Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.”
“A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.”
“You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.”
“Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.”
“Let a man nobly live or nobly die.”
“More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.”
“God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.”
“The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.”
“Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.”
“Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.”
“All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”