Sophocles Quotes

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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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• Success is dependant on effort.

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  Effort

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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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  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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• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Honor

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

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  Kindness, Helping Others, Luck

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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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• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Pain

  "Oedipus Rex". Play by Sophocles, Line 1184,

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

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  Beautiful, Deeds, Humans

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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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• 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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• A lie never lives to be old.

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  Life, Lying

  "Acrisius". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 59,

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• Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

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  Ignorance, Evil, Tough

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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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• All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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  Men, Evil, Wish

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• Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

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  Next, Birth, Reckoning

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• The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

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  Water, Oath

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• You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

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  Evening, Kind, Knows

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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 man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

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  Communication, Men, Thinking

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• A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

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  Wise, Doctors, Knives

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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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• 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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• Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

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  Life, Love You, Deeds

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