Sophocles Quotes
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Sophocles Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.
In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.
The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped
not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.
not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.
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.
To err is common
To all men, but the man who having erred
Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks
The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.
To all men, but the man who having erred
Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks
The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.
Haemon: No city is property of a single man.
Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.
Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.
Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.
Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.
And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.
Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more.
No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?
One soul is enough, I know, to pay the debt for thousands, if one will go to the gods in all good faith.
And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I'm going to cause you quite a lot of pain.
It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.