Sophocles Quotes - Page 4

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• Always desire to learn something useful

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  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

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• When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

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  Oedipus Tyrannus, 569 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

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• Despair often breeds disease.

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  Despair, Disease

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• Success is dependant on effort.

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  Effort

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• Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

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  Mad, Insanity, Jupiter

  "Antigone". Johnson's ed., line 632, 1785.

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• Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

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  Hard Work, Past, Today

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• Laziness is the mother of all evils.

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  Mother, Work, Evil

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• Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

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  Men, News, Likes

  Antigone l. 277. Sophocles's words are the earliest version that has been traced for the modern saying "Don't shoot the messenger."

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• Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

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  Wickedness, Foolishness

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1994). “Sophocles: Fragments”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

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  Helping, Cowardice, Fortune

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• There is no success without hardship.

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  Success, Congratulations, Achievement

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.177, University of Chicago Press

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• Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Hands

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• But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

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  Dark, Destiny, Might

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• Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

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  Uprising, Evil, Dying

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• If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

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  Wisdom, Men, Drink

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• Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

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  All Things, Concealed

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• The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

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  Eye, Men, Justice

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

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• The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

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  Strength, Fire, Iron

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

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  Littles, Antigone, Eternity

  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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• Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

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  Justice, Diversity, Deeds

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

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• I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

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  Drinking, Book, Beer

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• Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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  Money, World, Antigone

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

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• It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

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  Men, Good Man, Tasks

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• Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

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  Hype, Unjust, Wise Man Once Said

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• Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

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  Life, Live Life, Giving

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