QUOTES by Sophocles
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"Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial"
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"Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world"
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"Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud."
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"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace"
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"One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try"
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"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them."
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"The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach"
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"It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm."
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"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."
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"To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it."
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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."
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"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."
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"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven."
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"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver."
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