Sophocles Quotes - Page 17

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• For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

  Sophocles

  Men, Tidy, Tidings

  "The Antigone of Sophocles".

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• To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

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  Children, Hate, Giving

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• Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

  Sophocles

  Men, Formidable

  Antigone, 332-3 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

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• It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

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  Judging, Doe, Antigone

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.54, Penguin

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• But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

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  Laughter, Children, Giving

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• Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

  Sophocles

  Forgiveness, Silence, Silent

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• When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

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  Taken, Two, Mind

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

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  Fall, Gambling, Dice

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• To live with glory, or with glory die,
  This is the brave man's part.

  Sophocles

  Men, Brave, Glory

  "Tragedies".

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• It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Daughter, Hardship

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• To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

  Sophocles

  Worry, Anxiety

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• No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

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  Marriage, Wise, Men

  Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.411

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• Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

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  Firsts, Impossible, Meek

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• False words do not bring forth fruit.

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  Lying, Fruit

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• Ill-gotten gains work evil.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Gains, Ill

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• One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

  Sophocles

  Thinking, Speech, Speak

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• It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Sailing, Fairs

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

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• There is a time when even justice brings harm.

  Sophocles

  Justice, Harm

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

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• The truth is ever best.

  Sophocles

  Truth, Truth Is

  Sophocles (1824). “The Tragedies: In Two Volumes”, p.282

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• Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

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  Trust, Mistrust, Dies

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• Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

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  Gratitude, Flow, Deceiver

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