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State Quotes by Sophocles
- 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…
- A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
- It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be…
- A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
- The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
- I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
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