" 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; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare – I have no use for him either. "

Sophocles, Antigone Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. "

Sophocles, Antigone Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse. "

Sophocles, Trachiniae Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. "

Sophocles, Electra Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. "

Sophocles Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. "

Sophocles Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues. "

Sophocles, Antigone Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it. "

Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315 Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" Stranger in a strange country. "

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" 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. "

Sophocles, Antigone Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" To revive sorrow is cruel. "

Sophocles Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all! "

Sophocles, Oedpius Rex Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" The end excuses any evil. "

Sophocles, Electra (c.409 BC) Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied. "

Sophocles Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" The good befriend themselves. "

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. "

Sophocles Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" To him who is in fear everything rustles. "

Sophocles, Acrisius Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" It made our hair stand up in panic fear. "

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise. "

Sophocles, Antigone Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

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