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• It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

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  Mother, Dream, May

  Jocasta to Oedipus, her son and husband, before they both discover the truth of the prophecy. Oedipus Tyrannus, 979-83 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

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• There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

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  Life, Men, Judging

  "Women of Trachis". Play by Sophocles. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

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  Hell, Hades

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• You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

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  Life, Men, He Man

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

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• War loves to seek its victims in the young.

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  Love, War, Victim

  "Scyrii". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 507,

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• Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

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  Heart, Men, Stubbornness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.281, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

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  Winter, Yield, Rivers

  Haemon speaking. Antigone,712-14 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones,1994).

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• Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

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  Fate, Evil, Enemy

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• A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

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  Lows, Humans, Lifts

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• A human being is only breath and shadow.

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  Shadow, Humans, Breaths

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• Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.

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  Thinking

  "Antigone". Play by Sophocles, Line 706,

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• More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

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  Dirty, Men, Profit

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

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• Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer.

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  Goodbye, Shining, Sun

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

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• The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

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  Fire, Iron, Fragments

  BookCaps, Sophocles (2012). “Antigone In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

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  Tyrants, House, Wish

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• Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

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  Father, Opportunity, Giving

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

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• We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

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  Running, Evil, Goal

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.410

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• A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.

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  Men, Prudent, Neglect

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• No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

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  Yield, Fighter, Killing

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.86, Penguin

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• For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

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  Arrogance, Madness, Turns

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• Everything is ideal to its parent.

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  Family, Parent, Ideals

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• Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

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  Proud, Birth, Dies

  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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• One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

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  Men, Opposites, Cities

  Creon speaking. Antigone, 666-7 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones, 1994).

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• A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

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  Mind, Suffering, One Day

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

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  Done, Knows

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.246, Sophocles

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