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Good Quotes by Sophocles
- Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
- It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
- It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
- Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
- All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
- A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
- War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
- To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
- Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
- The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
- It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
- It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
- Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.
- Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
- You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
- In season, all is good.
- 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…
- Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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