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“When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse”
— Sophocles
“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.”
— Sophocles
“If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.”
— Sophocles
“Without labor nothing prospers. ”
— Sophocles
“Reason is God's crowning gift to man. ”
— Sophocles
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ”
— Sophocles
“A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. ”
— Sophocles
“But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless. ”
— Sophocles
“Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.”
— Sophocles
“Even a poor man can receive honors.”
— Sophocles
“Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.”
— Sophocles
“God's dice always have a lucky roll.”
— Sophocles
“Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. ”
— Sophocles
“ Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies? ”
— Sophocles
“Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.”
— Sophocles
“But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.”
— Sophocles
“Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.”
— Sophocles
“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. ”
— Sophocles
“A lie never lives to be old. ”
— Sophocles
“There is a point at which even justice does injury.”
— Sophocles
“To him who is in fear everything rustles.”
— Sophocles
“For the dead there are no more toils. ”
— Sophocles
“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
— Sophocles
“Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. ”
— Sophocles
“There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? ”
— Sophocles
“In a just cause the weak will beat the strong. ”
— Sophocles
“The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.”
— Sophocles
“It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. ”
— Sophocles
“Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.”
— Sophocles
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
— Sophocles
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