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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. — Sophocles

[S]ilence supports the accuser's charge? — Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. — Sophocles

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct? — Sophocles

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. — Sophocles

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely. — Sophocles

They see you and me: they know my pain's a fact, my revenge is empty breath. — Sophocles

What men have seen they know; but what shall come hereafter no man before the event can see, 1420 nor what end waits for him. — Sophocles

In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day. — Sophocles

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. — Sophocles

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. — Sophocles

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. — Sophocles

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. — Sophocles

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart. — Sophocles

What you can't enforce, do not command. — Sophocles

Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul's life is gone. — Sophocles

A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain. — Sophocles

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life — Sophocles

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool. — Sophocles

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless. — Sophocles

Compassion limits even the power of God. — Sophocles

Good advice, if there's any good in suffering. Quickest is best when trouble blocks the way. — Sophocles

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. — Sophocles

There's no room for pride, not in a slave,
not with the lord and master standing by. — Sophocles

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider. — Sophocles

Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease. — Sophocles

Sophocles' plays, performed in amphitheaters, were the equivalent of today's megachurches, where customs and values were clarified and conveyed. — Jim Burke

How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth. — Sophocles

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not. — Sophocles

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. — Sophocles

( ... ) I, for one, prize less
The name of king than deeds of kingly power;
And so would all who learn in wisdom's school. — Sophocles

It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me. — Sophocles

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over? — Sophocles

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. — Sophocles

Children are the anchors of a mother's life. - SOPHOCLES, Phaedra, fragment 612 — Jodi Picoult

Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship. — Sophocles

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part. — Sophocles

You should not consider a man's age but his acts. — Sophocles

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. — Sophocles

Reason is God's crowning gift to man. — Sophocles

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone. — Sophocles

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. — Sophocles

A sight to touch e'en hatred's self with pity. — Sophocles

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. — Sophocles

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's. — Sophocles

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. — Sophocles

Reason is God's crowning gift to a man... — Sophocles

It's not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life. — Sophocles

An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift. — Sophocles

Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal. — Sophocles

Numberless are the world's wonders — Sophocles

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man — Sophocles

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep. — Sophocles

No man loves life like him that's growing old. — Sophocles

To a terrible place which men's ears may not hear of, nor their eyes see it. — Sophocles

God's dice always have a lucky roll. — Sophocles

The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear. — Sophocles

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. — Sophocles

The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength — Sophocles

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? — Sophocles

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do. — Sophocles

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come? — Sophocles

What people believe prevails over the truth. — Sophocles

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage. — Sophocles

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. — Sophocles

And if you find I've lied, from this day on call the prophet blind. — Sophocles

I cannot love a friend whose love is words. — Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. — Sophocles

Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly. — Sophocles

It's perfect justice: natures like yours are hardest on themselves. — Sophocles

Wonders are many ... but none is more wonderful than man — Sophocles

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect. — Sophocles

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best. — Sophocles

Be a thrifty steward of thy goods. — Sophocles

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all. — Sophocles

Unnatural silence signifies no good. — Sophocles

You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening. — Sophocles

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven. — Sophocles

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state. — Sophocles

Even a poor man can receive honors. — Sophocles

There is a point at which even justice does injury. — Sophocles

Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong. — Sophocles

It is the brave man's part to live with glory, or with glory die. — Sophocles

For time alone shews a man's honesty,
But in one day you may discern his guilt. — Sophocles

They're both mad, I tell you, the two of them.
One's just shown it, the other's been that way since she was born. — Sophocles

And now that Reason's light returns, New sorrow in his spirit burns. — Sophocles

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. — Sophocles

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. — Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful. — Sophocles

The truth is ever best. — Sophocles

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong. — Sophocles

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding. — Sophocles

A lie never grows old. — Sophocles

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies? — Sophocles

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere. — Sophocles

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. — Sophocles

False words do not bring forth fruit. — Sophocles

Thy life is safe while any god saves mine. — Sophocles

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft. — Sophocles

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. — Sophocles