Sophocles Quotes - Page 13

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• Not even old age knows how to love death.

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  Birthday, Age, How To Love

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• A human being is only breath and shadow.

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  Shadow, Humans, Breaths

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• Ill-gotten gains work evil.

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  Evil, Gains, Ill

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• It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

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  Evil, Sailing, Fairs

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

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• Silence is an ornament for women.

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  Silence, Ornaments, Silence Is

  Sophocles (1963). “Sophocles, Ajax”

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• Evil counsel travels fast.

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  Evil

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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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• 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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• To women silence gives their proper grace.

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  Giving, Silence, Grace

  Sophocles (1820). “Tragedies”, p.251

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• Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

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  Father, Opportunity, Giving

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”

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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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• To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

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  Errors, Evil, Common

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• God's dice always have a lucky roll.

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  Lucky, Dice

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• Obedience to authority saves many skins

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  Skins, Obedience, Authority

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• Even a poor man can receive honors.

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  Men, Honor, Poor

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• Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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  Doe, Reverence, Mortals

  "The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks". Book by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 69, December 15, 2008.

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• Time is a kindly God.

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  Time

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.148, University of Chicago Press

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• There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Age

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• Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

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  Enemy, Mockery, Sweetest

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• I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

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  Hate, Born, Love Not Hate

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.63, Penguin

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• Success is the reward for toil.

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  Toil, Rewards, Classroom

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• If they are just, they are better than clever.

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  Clever, Justice, Ifs

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

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• The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

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  Sleep, Eye, Men

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.250, University of Chicago Press

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• The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

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  Flower, Eye, Men

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

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• Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

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  Strong, Eye, Lovely

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

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