Sophocles Quotes - Page 16

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• Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

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  Men, Nobility, Dies

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

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  Men, Sick, Disease

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• For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

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  Good Night, Thousand, Wells

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• It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

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  Looks, Woe, Danger

  Sophocles (1849). “The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr”, p.303

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• No lie ever reaches old age.

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  Birthday, Lying, Age

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• Great Time makes all things dim.

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  Time, All Things, Great Times

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

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  Smart, Grief, Choices

  Sophocles (2006). “The Complete Plays of Sophocles”, p.92, Bantam Classics

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• Not even old age knows how to love death.

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  Birthday, Age, How To Love

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• 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.

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  Men, Hearing, Obedience

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

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• The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

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  Change, Loss, Night

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• Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

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• When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.

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  Believe, Men, Joy

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• To women silence gives their proper grace.

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  Giving, Silence, Grace

  Sophocles (1820). “Tragedies”, p.251

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• Evil counsel travels fast.

  Sophocles

  Evil

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• A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

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  Men, Shadow, Breaths

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Silence is an ornament for women.

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  Silence, Ornaments, Silence Is

  Sophocles (1963). “Sophocles, Ajax”

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• The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

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  Ignorance, Men, Evil

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• Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

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  Children, Heaven, Bears

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• Kids are anchors of mothers' life

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  Mother, Kids, Anchors

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• When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

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  Fall, People, Sorrow

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

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  War, Fate, Dark

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• For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

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  Friendship, Love Is, Cast Away

  Sophocles (1837). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.19

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• I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

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  Winning, Missing, Acting

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• When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

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  Pride, Boys, Doors

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

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  Hate, Men, Brave

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