Sophocles Quotes about Lying

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A lie never lives to be old.

Sophocles

Life, Lying

"Acrisius". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 59,

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

Truth, Honesty, Lying

"Creusa". Play by Sophocles, fragment 323,

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles

Gratitude, Lying, Men

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”