Sophocles Quotes - Page 13

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• For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

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  Men, Casting, Worship

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• What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.

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  Taught

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• It is best to live however one can be.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

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  Peace, War, News

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• Better not to exist than live basely.

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• I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

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  Shadow

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• The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

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  Flower, Eye, Men

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Silence gives the proper grace to women

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  Giving, Silence, Grace

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• Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

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  Silence, Allies, Shame

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• If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

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  Fool, Tales, Seems

  Sophocles (2015). “The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.174, Xist Publishing

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• To err from the right path is common to mankind.

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  Path, Common, Mankind

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC

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• Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

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  Men, Investing, Wonder

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

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  Men, Justice, Fairness

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

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  Strong, Eye, Lovely

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

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  Gains, Late, Wells

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• Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

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  Men, Chance, Should

  Sophocles (2012). “Oedipus the King”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

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  Kindness, Secret Life

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

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  Men, Evil, Fortune

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• An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

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  Enemy

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

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• Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

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  Liars, Firsts, Resolve

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.35, University of Chicago Press

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• It is not righteousness to outrage

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  Outrage, Righteousness

  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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• For the dead there are no more toils.

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  Sympathy, Death, Dying

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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• What men have seen they know. . . .

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  Men, Know Me, Knows

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

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  Grief, Men, Suffering

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• To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

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  Men, Kind Deeds, Deeds Done

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