Sophocles Quote

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.


Oedipus at Colonus (ed. 1941)


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...

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...

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...

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...