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Sophocles Quotes - Page 12

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To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

Errors, Evil, Common

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Lucky, Dice

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

Wise, Wisdom, Age

Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

Men, May, Ruins

Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

Enemy, Mockery, Sweetest

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Fool, Action, Strikes

Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.60, Penguin

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

Hate, Born, Love Not Hate

Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.63, Penguin

Success is the reward for toil.

Toil, Rewards, Classroom

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Doe, Reverence, Mortals

"The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks". Book by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 69, December 15, 2008.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

Clever, Justice, Ifs

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

The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

Sleep, Eye, Men

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.250, University of Chicago Press

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Noble, Impossible, Speak

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

Theatre, Actors, May

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

Men, Pleasure

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

Advice, Watches, Trouble

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

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

Time, Memories, Waiting

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Rewards, Virtue, Secure

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Hope, Men, Deception

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Light, Speech, Second Best

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.202, University of Chicago Press

Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.

Mind, Tasks, Needs

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

Children, Justice, Limits

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

Lying, Men, Hands

What men have seen they know. . . .

Men, Know Me, Knows

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

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Love, Boxers, Fool

What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.

Taught

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