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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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I think I heard you say that Laius
Was murdered at a place where three ways meet?
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.
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Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.
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The happiest life is lived while one understands nothing, before one learns delight or pain.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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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.
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Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.
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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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From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape
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Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,
Befits proud birth.
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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You are blind in your ears and mind, as well as your eyes.
Oedipus to Tiresias
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So do not fear this marriage with your mother;
Many a man has suffered this before—
But only in his dreams.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
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For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
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But it is a pleasant thing to get the prize of victory; be daring—in time we shall be shown to have been in the right.
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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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Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil!
This is why cities tumble and the great houses rain down,
This is what scatters armies!
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Our ship of fate, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last.
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Born:
497 BC
Died:
406 BC
(aged 91)
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Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides.
Known for:
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Electra
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