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Sophocles Quotes about Justice

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

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

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

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

If they are just, they are better than clever.

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

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

There are times when even justice brings harm with it.

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

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

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