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Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Greek tragic dramatist [more author details]

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.: Sophocles
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.: Sophocles
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.: Sophocles
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.: Sophocles
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.: Sophocles
What you cannot enforce, do not command.: Sophocles
No man loves life like him that's growing old.: Sophocles, Acrisius
To him who is in fear everything rustles.: Sophocles, Acrisius
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.: Sophocles, Ajax
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.: Sophocles, Ajax
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.: Sophocles, Ajax
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For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.: Sophocles, Antigone
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.: Sophocles, Antigone
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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!: Sophocles, Antigone
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.: Sophocles, Antigone
Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.: Sophocles, Antigone
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Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.: Sophocles, Antigone
Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.: Sophocles, Antigone
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.: Sophocles, Antigone
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.: Sophocles, Antigone
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