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• Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

  Sophocles

  Fate, Evil, Enemy

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• A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

  Sophocles

  Lows, Humans, Lifts

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• For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

  Sophocles

  Arrogance, Madness, Turns

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

  Sophocles

  Proud, Birth, Dies

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

  Sophocles

  Done, Knows

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.246, Sophocles

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• Everything is ideal to its parent.

  Sophocles

  Family, Parent, Ideals

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• More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

  Sophocles

  Dirty, Men, Profit

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

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• The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

  Sophocles

  Fire, Iron, Fragments

  BookCaps, Sophocles (2012). “Antigone In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

  Sophocles

  Running, Evil, Goal

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.410

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• One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

  Sophocles

  Men, Opposites, Cities

  Creon speaking. Antigone, 666-7 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones, 1994).

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• A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.

  Sophocles

  Men, Prudent, Neglect

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• Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer.

  Sophocles

  Goodbye, Shining, Sun

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

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• No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

  Sophocles

  Yield, Fighter, Killing

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.86, Penguin

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• Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

  Sophocles

  Tyrants, House, Wish

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• Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

  Sophocles

  Men, Nobility, Dies

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

  Sophocles

  Men, Sick, Disease

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• To live with glory, or with glory die,
  This is the brave man's part.

  Sophocles

  Men, Brave, Glory

  "Tragedies".

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• Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

  Sophocles

  Firsts, Impossible, Meek

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• The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

  Sophocles

  Men, Hearing, Obedience

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

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• When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

  Sophocles

  Taken, Two, Mind

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Love Is, Cast Away

  Sophocles (1837). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.19

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• Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

  Sophocles

  Smart, Grief, Choices

  Sophocles (2006). “The Complete Plays of Sophocles”, p.92, Bantam Classics

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• When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.

  Sophocles

  Believe, Men, Joy

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• Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

  Sophocles

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• Kids are anchors of mothers' life

  Sophocles

  Mother, Kids, Anchors

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