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Antigone quotes

Sophocles

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“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
“A State for one man is no State at all.” Sophocles, Antigone
“For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery.” Sophocles, Antigone
“To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Yea, so it falls, sire, when misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.” Sophocles, Antigone
“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
“Of happiness the chiefest part is a wise heart: And to defraud the gods in aught with peril's fraught.” 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
“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.” Sophocles, Antigone
“It may be thou art right: Unnatural silence signifies no good.” Sophocles, Antigone
“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Didst hear and heed, Or art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?” 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
“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
“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?” Sophocles, Antigone
“For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.” Sophocles, Antigone

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