QUOTES by Sophocles
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"Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly."
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"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."
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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."
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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."
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"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is."
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"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."
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"Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men."
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"For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things."
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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."
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"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink."
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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."
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"If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."
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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."
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"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."
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"Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him."
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"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."
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"Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die."
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