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Dead Quotes by Sophocles
- If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
- For the dead there are no more toils.
- We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
- It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
- Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
- Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
- 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…
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