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• What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

  Sophocles

  Future, Men, Waiting

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

  Sophocles

  Wish To Die, Evil, Wickedness

  "Electra". Play by Sophocles, Line 1007. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

  Sophocles

  Men, Looks, Fortune

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

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• There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Fortune

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• Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

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  Pain, Memories, Men

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

  Sophocles

  Speech, Wells, Developmental

  Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.89

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• To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

  Sophocles

  Evil

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• When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

  Sophocles

  Argument, Blind, Call Me

  Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”

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• There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

  Sophocles

  Wisdom, Antigone

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

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• In a just cause it is right to be confident.

  Sophocles

  Confidence, Causes, Be Confident

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• Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

  Sophocles

  Good Friend, Turns

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• How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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  Judging, Judgement, Antigone

  Antigone (c. 442 b.c.).

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• Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.

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  Enemy

  'Ajax' l. 665

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• What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

  Sophocles

  Father, Son, Ornaments

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• If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

  Sophocles

  Deeds, Ends, Wells

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• One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

  Sophocles

  Grief, Adversity, Trouble

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• As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.

  Sophocles

  Sound, Blind

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.151, University of Chicago Press

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• The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Past

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• You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

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  Life, Men, He Man

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

  Sophocles

  Pain, Departed, Suffering

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• Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

  Sophocles

  Heart, Men, Stubbornness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.281, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The gods love those of ordered soul.

  Sophocles

  Order, Soul, God Love

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.294

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• Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

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  Power, Men, Wind

  Sophocles (1905). “Tragedies”

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• It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

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  Return, Born, Has Beens

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• No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

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  Sight, Darkness, Deeds

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.83, Sophocles

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