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Things Quotes by Sophocles
- Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
- Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
- Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
- Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
- It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
- A fearful man is always hearing things.
- A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
- For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these…
- Opportunity has power over all things.
- If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
- Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
- Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
- Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
- Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
- Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
- As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.
- Great Time makes all things dim.
- Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
- Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
- Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
- For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
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