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Sophocles Quotes - Page 13

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

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

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

For the dead there are no more toils.

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

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

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

Sophocles (2015). “The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.174, Xist Publishing

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

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

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.217, University of Chicago Press

It is not righteousness to outrage

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”