62 Quotes About Greek-poet


  • Author Sophocles
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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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    I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

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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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    Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

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    There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

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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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