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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

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

The tyrant is a child of pride.

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Children, Pride, Tyrants
Sophocles (1949). “The Oedipus Cycles”

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

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Pride, Proud, Tongue

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

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

Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

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Wisdom, Pride, Men
Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.177

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

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Pride, Boys, Doors
Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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