Sophocles Quotes - Page 9

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• Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.

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  Love, Girl, Night

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

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• Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

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  Pride, Proud, Tongue

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• They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

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  Wise, Buffets, Against Love

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.290, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A mind at peace does not engender wars.

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  War, Mind, Doe

  Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.

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  Persons

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• For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

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  Life, Dream, Shadow

  Sophocles (1908). “The Tragedies of Sophocles”

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• It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

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  Speak, Dishonor, Good Sense

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

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• The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

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  Reason, Plant, Mankind

  Sophocles (1993). “Antigone”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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  Friendship, Winning, Yield

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

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  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  "Women of Trachis". Play by Sophocles, Lines 592-593,

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• Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

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  Sleep, Medicine, Giving

  Philoctetes 766 (transl. F. Storr)

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• Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Men

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• Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

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  Men, Missing, Strikes

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

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  Life, Rocks, One Day

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• There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

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  Misery, Pleasure, Forgetfulness

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• If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

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  Men, Discipline, Ifs

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

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• When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

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  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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• A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

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  Life, Men, Prudent

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• Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

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  Destiny

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

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• I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

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  Men, Use, Kind

  "Antigone". Play by Sophocles, Line 181,

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• To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

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  Sound, Speech, Ill

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• Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

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  Money, Men, Cities

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• Love is like ice in the hands of children.

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  Children, Love Is, Hands

  "Achilles' Loves". Play by Sophocles,

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• Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

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  Hands, Mourning, Weeping

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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• If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

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  Mad, Ifs

  Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.64

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