Sophocles Quotes

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• The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.

  Sophocles

  Beautiful, Deeds, Humans

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  The truth is always the strongest argument.

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  Truth, Understanding, Prussia

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 737,

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  All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

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  Mistake, Character, Pride

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

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• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Honor

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

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  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.

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  Law, Support

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• What people believe prevails over the truth.

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  Truth, Believe, Divorce

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

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  Trust, Mistrust, Dies

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• Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

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  Safety, World, Safe

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.221, University of Chicago Press

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• If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

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  Kindness, Helping Others, Luck

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• Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

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  Time, Secret, Secrecy

  "Hipponous". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 280,

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• You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

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  Pain, Suffering, Remember

  Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff (2003). “Theban Plays”, p.204, Hackett Publishing

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• The happiest life is to be without thought

  Sophocles

  Life Is

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• The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

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  Past, Expectations, Joy

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• Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

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  Stupidity, Twins, Stubbornness

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

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  Money, Home, Men

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• Tomorrow is tomorrow.
  Future cares have future cures,
  And we must mind today.

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  Mind, Care, Today

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles”, Signet

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• Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

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  Gratitude, Lying, Men

  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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• Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

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  Ignorance, Evil, Tough

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• Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

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  Men, Blind, Every Man

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• A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Communication

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• How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

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  Wise, Men, Oedipus

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

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  Inspirational, Education, Wise

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

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• Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

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  Heart, Thinking, Spirit

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

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• I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

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  Reality, Suffering, Desire

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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