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• The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

  Sophocles

  Strength, Fire, Iron

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

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  Anger, Drug, Physicians

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• A short saying often contains much wisdom.

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  Motivational, Success, Wisdom

  "Aletes". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 99,

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• It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

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  "Peleus". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 445,

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• How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

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  Decision, Dangerous, Prove

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• Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

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  Fall, Prosperity, Destruction

  Sophocles (1848). “Sophocles”, p.122

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• When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day,
  Edging slowly back and forth toward death?
  Anyone who warms their heart with the glow
  Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.
  The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

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  Heart, Men, Noble Man

  Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff (2007). “Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes”, p.23, Hackett Publishing

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• Love, you mock us for your sport.

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  Sports, Love You, Mock

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.77, Penguin

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• Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

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  Support, Silence, Knows

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• Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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  Money, World, Antigone

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

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• The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

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  Eye, Men, Justice

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

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  Littles, Antigone, Eternity

  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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• If you try to cure evil with evil
  you will add more pain to your fate.

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  Pain, Fate, Evil

  Sophocles, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2010). “The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays”, p.40, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

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  Eye, Crafts, Blind

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Book by Oedipus at Colonus, 401 BC.

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

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  Watches, Ruins, Trouble

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

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• The end excuses any evil.

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  Evil, Excuse, Ends

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• A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

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  Work, Men, Acting

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• Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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  Motivational, Work, Aids

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• There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

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  Justice, Unjust, Internet

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• If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

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  Mind, Body, Coping

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• How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

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  Knowledge, Oedipus, Ontology

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

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• No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

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  Noble, Speech, Stains

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• Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

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  Hate, Grieving, Too Much

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• All is disgust when one leaves his own nature
  and does things that misfit it.

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  Doe, Misfits, Disgusting

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1957). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

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  Beautiful, Looks, Ugly

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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