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Antigone quotes

Sophocles

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“I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, Is no less ominous than excessive grief.” Sophocles, Antigone
“The blind man cannot move without a guide.” Sophocles, Antigone
“A State for one man is no State at all.” Sophocles, Antigone
“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.” Sophocles, Antigone
“It may be thou art right: Unnatural silence signifies no good.” Sophocles, Antigone
“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.” Sophocles, Antigone
“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Who did the deed the under-world knows well: A friend in word is never friend of mine.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Yea, so it falls, sire, when misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.” Sophocles, Antigone
“For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.” Sophocles, Antigone
“To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Of happiness the chiefest part is a wise heart: And to defraud the gods in aught with peril's fraught.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.” Sophocles, Antigone
“The workings of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.” Sophocles, Antigone
“For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.” Sophocles, Antigone
“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?” Sophocles, Antigone
“Didst hear and heed, Or art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?” Sophocles, Antigone
“No man, my lord, should make a vow, for if He ever swears he will not do a thing, His afterthoughts belie his first resolve.” Sophocles, Antigone

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