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And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
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It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
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One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?
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More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
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No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
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It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.
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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.
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Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
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Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
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Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
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If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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IOCLASTA: Nay, what should mortal[s] fear, for whom the degree of fortune are supreme, and who hath clear foresight of nothing? 'Tis best to live at random, as one may.
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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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