Quotes by Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.

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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be...

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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

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A short saying often contains much wisdom.

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A man growing old becomes a child again.

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A human being is only breath and shadow.

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