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Sophocles Quotes - Page 10

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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Evil

In a just cause it is right to be confident.

Confidence, Causes, Be Confident

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

Darkness, Guilt, Doe

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

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

Good Friend, Turns

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Luxury, House, Excellence

Evil gains work their punishment.

Punishment, Evil, Gains

Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Enemy

'Ajax' l. 665

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

Father, Son, Ornaments

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

Grief, Adversity, Trouble

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

Grief, Sadness, Sorrow

"Scyrii". Play by Sophocles, fragment 510. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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

Speak, Dishonor, Good Sense

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

As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.

Sound, Blind

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.151, University of Chicago Press

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

Wise, Wisdom, Past

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Anger, Drug, Physicians

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Speech, Wells, Developmental

Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.89

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

Judging, Judgement, Antigone

Antigone (c. 442 b.c.).

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

Pain, Departed, Suffering

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Important

Sophocles (1884). “Sophocles Antigone; Edited on the Basis of Wolff's Edition by Martin L. D'Ooge...”

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Deeds, Ends, Wells

The gods love those of ordered soul.

Order, Soul, God Love

Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.294

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Men, World, Wonder

Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Robert Whitelaw (1938). “Ten Greek Plays”

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

Power, Men, Wind

Sophocles (1905). “Tragedies”

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Battle

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

Return, Born, Has Beens

No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

Sight, Darkness, Deeds

Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.83, Sophocles

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