SOPHOCLES (C. 496 - C. 406 BCE), A PROMINENT ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDIAN.
“Do not believe that you alone can be right.
The man who thinks that,
The man who maintains that only he has the power
To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul—
A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.”
~ Sophocles, Antigone
“In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
But once the wrong is done, a man
can turn his back on folly, misfortune too,
if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen,
and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornness
brands you for stupidity - pride is a crime.”
~ Sophocles, Antigone
“Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
~ Sophocles, Ajax
“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.”
~ Sophocles, Antigone
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.”
~ Sophocles, Ajax
“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
~ Sophocles, Antigone
“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“I was born to join in love, not hate –
that is my nature.”
~ Sophocles, Antigone
“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
~ Sophocles, Antigone
“Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.”
~ Sophocles, Antigone
“We have only a little time to please the living.
But all eternity to love the dead.”
~ Sophocles, Antigone
“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.”
~ Sophocles, Electra
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
“It is not right
if I am wrong. But if I am young, and right,
what does my age matter?”
~ Sophocles, Antigone
“How terrible-- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.”
~ Sophocles, Creusa
“Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.”
~ Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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