There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

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• Sophocles:

  He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

• Sophocles:

  There is no greater evil than anarchy.

• Sophocles:

  All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

• Sophocles:

  Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

• Sophocles:

  A man growing old becomes a child again.

• Sophocles:

  There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

• Sophocles:

  I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

• Sophocles:

  To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by

• Sophocles:

  A human being is only breath and shadow.

• Sophocles:

  Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.