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• A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

  Sophocles

  Communication, Men, Thinking

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• You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

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  Evening, Kind, Knows

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• A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Communication

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• I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

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  Reality, Suffering, Desire

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

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  Love, Wounds

  Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• What greater wound is there than a false friend?

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  False Friends, Greater, Wounds

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• What you can't enforce, do not command.

  Sophocles

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

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  Wise, Men, Oedipus

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• The happiest life is to be without thought

  Sophocles

  Life Is

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• Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.

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  Law, Support

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• Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

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  Life, Love You, Deeds

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• Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

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  Heart, Thinking, Spirit

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

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• Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

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  Decision, Quick Decisions, Unsafe

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• A lie never lives to be old.

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  Life, Lying

  "Acrisius". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 59,

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• There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

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  Wise, Men, Submission To God

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

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• The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

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  Grief, Greatness, Worry

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

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• It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

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  Soul, Self Improvement, Glory

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• In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

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  Strong, Weak Will, Causes

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

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• Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

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  Sides, Fortune, Hearted

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 842,

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• Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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  Past, Born

  Oedipus Coloneus l. 1225

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• Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Not Knowing

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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• Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

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  Men, Might, Alone Time

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• No man loves life like him that's growing old.

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  Love Life, Men, Age

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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• The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Loss

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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