Sophocles Quotes - Page 17

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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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• To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

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  Worry, Anxiety

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• False words do not bring forth fruit.

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  Lying, Fruit

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• When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

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  Pride, Boys, Doors

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

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  Children, Heaven, Bears

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• To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

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  Children, Hate, Giving

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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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• But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

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  Laughter, Children, Giving

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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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• Great Time makes all things dim.

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  Time, All Things, Great Times

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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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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• When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

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  Fall, People, Sorrow

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

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  War, Fate, Dark

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• Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

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  Forgiveness, Silence, Silent

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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's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

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  Judging, Doe, Antigone

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.54, Penguin

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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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• One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

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  Thinking, Speech, Speak

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• Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

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  Gratitude, Flow, Deceiver

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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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• The truth is ever best.

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  Truth, Truth Is

  Sophocles (1824). “The Tragedies: In Two Volumes”, p.282

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