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Him Quotes by Sophocles
- No man loves life like him that's growing old.
- Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
- Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path…
- I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best…
- It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
- But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for…
- Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the…
- To him who is afraid, everything rustles.
- A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
- Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
- If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
- Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can,…
- What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
- To him who is in fear everything rustles.
- Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
- When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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