Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues
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“The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.”
Source: The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)
“Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.”
Source: Dramas of Sophocles
“A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
Source: Sophocles
“A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.”
“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 plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Source: The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
“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
“A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.”