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- 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 for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
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