Sophocles Quotes - Page 11

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• It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

  Sophocles

  Return, Born, Has Beens

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• Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

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  Gratitude, Giving, Birth

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• Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

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  War, Fate, Ships

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

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• But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

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  Men, Enemy

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• It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

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  Happiness, Fate, Giving

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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• Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

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  Fortune, Tyranny, Humans

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

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  Communication, Winning, Men

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• You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

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  Anger, Heart, Stones

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• Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

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  Country, Thinking, Important

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• A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

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  Driven, Broads

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• 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

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  Learning, Men, Intuition

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• No oath can be too binding for a lover.

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  Lovers, Oath, Binding

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 848,

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• How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

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  Sweet, Forget, Short Time

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• There is no greater evil than anarchy.

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  Evil, Anarchy, Anarchism

  Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (2016). “The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides”, p.301, Modern Library

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• From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

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  Men, Suffering, Has Beens

  Sophocles (2008). “Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra”, p.112, OUP Oxford

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• For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

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  Hate, Arrogance, Tongue

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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• Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

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  Pain, Sleep, Mind

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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  Care, Deeds

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• Truth is always straightforward.

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  Truth, Truth Is, Straightforward

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• 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.

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  Conceited, Judging, Speak

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• To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

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  Fear, Men, He Man

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• No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

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  Evil

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• Obedience to authority saves many skins

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  Skins, Obedience, Authority

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• Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

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  Mother, Men, Evil

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”

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• Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

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  Impossible, Madness, Astronomy

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