The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
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Sophocles
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About Sophocles
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, 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. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in th…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by SophoclesWhoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
No lie ever reaches old age.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
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