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Sophocles Quotes
Greek tragic dramatist
| “ | Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Trachiniae | ” |
| “ | Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Trachiniae | ” |
| “ | A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
Trachiniae | ” |
| “ | Time eases all things.
Oedipus Rex | ” |
| “ | The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Oedipus Rex | ” |
| “ | How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
Oedipus Rex | ” |
| “ | The good befriend themselves.
Oedipus at Colonus | ” |
| “ | Stranger in a strange country.
Oedipus at Colonus | ” |
| “ | One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
Oedipus at Colonus | ” |
| “ | It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
Oedipus at Colonus | ” |
| “ | The end excuses any evil.
Electra (c.409 BC) | ” |
| “ | Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
Electra | ” |
| “ | Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Electra | ” |
| “ | Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Creusa | ” |
| “ | Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
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.
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.
Antigone | ” |
| “ | Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
Antigone | ” |
| “ | Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Antigone | ” |
| “ | Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
Antigone | ” |
| “ | Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Antigone | ” |
| “ | Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Antigone | ” |
| “ | 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.
Antigone | ” |
| “ | How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
Antigone | ” |
| “ | Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Antigone | ” |
| “ | For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
Antigone | ” |
| “ | Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
Ajax | ” |
| “ | Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Ajax | ” |
| “ | It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Ajax | ” |
| “ | To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Acrisius | ” |
| “ | No man loves life like him that's growing old.
Acrisius | ” |
| “ | What you cannot enforce, do not command. | ” |
| “ | The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. | ” |
| “ | One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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| “ | Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. | ” |
| “ | Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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| “ | A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
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