Sophocles Quotes - Page 6

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• I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no
  other man than that I am.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Children, Fall

  Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”

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• To revive sorrow is cruel.

  Sophocles

  Sorrow, Revive

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• If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

  Sophocles

  Mind, Body, Coping

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• What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

  Sophocles

  Fate, Blame, Knows

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• The tyrant is a child of pride.

  Sophocles

  Children, Pride, Tyrants

  Sophocles (1949). “The Oedipus Cycles”

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• No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

  Sophocles

  Noble, Speech, Stains

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

  Sophocles

  Watches, Ruins, Trouble

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

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• Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

  Sophocles

  Heart, Stout, Approach

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• There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Men, Submission To God

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

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• I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Love Is

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

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• Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

  Sophocles

  Men, Understanding, Firsts

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• No honest man will argue on every side

  Sophocles

  Honesty, Men, Sides

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• There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

  Sophocles

  Advice, Bad Advice, Hateful

  Sophocles, Francis Fergusson (1969). “Electra: A Version for the Modern Stage”

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• Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

  Sophocles

  Motivational, Work, Aids

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• All is disgust when one leaves his own nature
  and does things that misfit it.

  Sophocles

  Doe, Misfits, Disgusting

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1957). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

  Sophocles

  Memories, Powerful, Terrible

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• Kindness begets kindness evermore.

  Sophocles

  Kindness, Evermore, Begets

  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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• A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Player, Luck

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 947,

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• Success, remember is the reward of toil.

  Sophocles

  Success, Fortune Cookie, Toil

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• Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

  Sophocles

  Life, Light

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• Stranger in a strange country.

  Sophocles

  Country, Strange, Stranger

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.154, University of Chicago Press

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• Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Pet, Want

  Electra 1007

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• There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

  Sophocles

  Justice, Unjust, Internet

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• It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

  Sophocles

  Wisdom, Men, Wisest Man

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

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• It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

  Sophocles

  Men, Law, People

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