"The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss."
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Sophocles quotes (page 21 of 22)
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"Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's."
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"The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through."
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"Even a poor man can receive honors."
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"No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?"
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"Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?"
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"One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable."
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"Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"False words do not bring forth fruit."
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"Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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"Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man."
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"Great Time makes all things dim."
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"No lie ever reaches old age."
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"Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women."
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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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"Evil counsel travels fast."
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"Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things."
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"The truth is ever best."
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