Sophocles Quotes - Page 17

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

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  Men, Formidable

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

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• Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

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  Trust, Mistrust, Dies

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

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  Love, Daughter, Hardship

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• Kids are anchors of mothers' life

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  Mother, Kids, Anchors

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

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• Ill-gotten gains work evil.

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  Evil, Gains, Ill

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• To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

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  Worry, Anxiety

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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 dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

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  Fall, Gambling, Dice

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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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• 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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• There is a time when even justice brings harm.

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  Justice, Harm

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

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• For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

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  Men, Tidy, Tidings

  "The Antigone of Sophocles".

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

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  Believe, Men, Joy

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• Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

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  Pain, Sleep, Mind

  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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• For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

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  Hate, Arrogance, Tongue

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

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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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