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One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. - [Learning] Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. - [Failure : Success] Silence gives the proper grace to women. - [Silence] The gods love those of ordered soul. - [Order] The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not. - [Obedience] The rugged, all-nourishing earth. - [Earth] Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn. - [Wisdom] To him who is in fear everything rustles. - [Fear] To women silence gives their proper grace. - [Silence] Truth is always straightforward. - [Truth] War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. - [War] Wisdom is the most important part of happiness. - [Wisdom] You win the victory when you yield to friends. - [Victory] A lie never lives to be old. - Acrisius (frag. 59) [Lying] Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. - Ajax (293) [Silence] To touch the quick. - Ajax (786) [Sensibility] A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Aletes (frag. 99) [Wisdom] Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad. [Lat., Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat primus.] - Antigone, (Johnson's edition) (1758), p. 632 [Insanity] To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. - Antigone (1251) [Silence] Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow. - Antigone (707) [Conceit] There is a point at which even justice does injury. - Electra [Justice] You do the deeds, And your ungodly deeds find me the words. - Electra (l. 624), (Milton's translation) [Deeds] It is never right to consider that a man has been made happy by fate, until his life is absolutely finished, and he has ended his existence. - Frag. Tyndarus [Hope] Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. - Fragment (288) [Action : Decision : Heaven] I write a woman's oaths in water. - Fragment (l. 120) [Oaths] Displaying page 2 of 3 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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