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497 BC–405 BC Greece
Sophocles (Greek: Σοφοκλῆς; c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
When the mind hath once become a parent of evil, it teaches men to be evil thenceforth.
I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
Evil seems good, soon or late, to him whose mind the god draws to mischief.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
No man loves life like him that's growing old.
Chance never helps the men who nothing do.
All is offence when a man hath forsaken his true nature, and is doing what doth not befit him.
O Death, Death, when I am thus ever calling thee, day by day, why canst thou never come?
For kindness begets kindness evermore,
Time alone shows a just man; but thou couldst discern a knave even in one day.
For so occasion bids, chief ruler of every enterprise of men.
Mortal man should deem nothing beneath his care.
A good man still will succour the distressed.
The man who fears hears noise on every side.
Praise no man much until thou see his death.
Man is but breath and shadow, nothing more.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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