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Sophocles quotes

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“A State for one man is no State at all.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“The blind man cannot move without a guide.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“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” - c. 441 BC

“Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“Of happiness the chiefest part is a wise heart: And to defraud the gods in aught with peril's fraught.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“Who did the deed the under-world knows well: A friend in word is never friend of mine.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“Yea, so it falls, sire, when misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, Is no less ominous than excessive grief.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“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” - c. 441 BC

“Didst hear and heed, Or art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“It may be thou art right: Unnatural silence signifies no good.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“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” - c. 441 BC

“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

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