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• I write a woman's oaths in water.

  Sophocles

  Writing, Water, Oath

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 564, Fragment, 694, 1922.

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• Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

  Sophocles

  Men, May, Ruins

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Better to die, and sleep
  The never-waking sleep, than linger on
  And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

  Sophocles

  Suicide, Sleep, Soul

  Sophocles, “Chorus From Ajax”

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• Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

  Sophocles

  Wisdom, Pride, Men

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.177

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• To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Sorrow, Sound

  "Antigone". 1251,

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• I was not born to share the hate, but love.

  Sophocles

  Hate, Love Hate, Share

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• Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?

  Sophocles

  Fall, Blessing, Men

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes Plumptre (190?). “Sophocles Tragedies and Fragments”

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• And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

  Sophocles

  Sight, Judging, Deeds

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.156, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

  Sophocles

  Life, Men, Heaven

  Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.406

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• Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.

  Sophocles

  Thinking

  "Antigone". Play by Sophocles, Line 706,

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• For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

  Sophocles

  Hate, Arrogance, Tongue

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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• The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.

  Sophocles

  Crush, Greek, Gears

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• Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

  Sophocles

  Impossible, Madness, Astronomy

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• Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Men, Evil

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”

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• Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

  Sophocles

  Men, Thinking, Uprising

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• A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

  Sophocles

  Theatre, Actors, May

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

  Sophocles

  Advice, Watches, Trouble

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Allies, Shame

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• Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

  Sophocles

  God, Men, Antigone

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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• Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.

  Sophocles

  Trouble

  Sophocles (1838). “Plays: With Original Explanatory English Notes”, p.110

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• True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

  Sophocles

  Worst

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.265, Sophocles

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• What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

  Sophocles

  Luxury, House, Excellence

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• Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

  Sophocles

  War, Fate, Ships

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

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• It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

  Sophocles

  Noble, Impossible, Speak

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• Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.

  Sophocles

  Mind, Tasks, Needs

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