The Sophocles
The Sophocles
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crosses driven none path power stormy threaten white wonderful wonders
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
greek-poet justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
greek-poet
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
greek-poet man nature
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
among ancient call cannot good greek-poet life man men mortals saying thoroughly understand
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.
breathing call greek-poet happiness man
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
greek-poet whoever
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
deeds greek-poet shameful taught
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
greek-poet
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
greek-poet
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
cure greek-poet heavier ill
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
greek-poet
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
greek-poet men nor prophet waits
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
dreadful greek-poet knowledge truth
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.