Sophocles Quotes - Page 11

• Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

  Sófocles

  Importante

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

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• Los dioses aman a los de alma ordenada.

  Sófocles

  Orden, Alma, Dios Amor

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Decano de Wells.) (1867). "Las Tragedias de Sófocles. Una nueva traducción, con un ensayo biográfico de E. H. Plumptre", p.294

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

  Sófocles

  Men, World, Wonder

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

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• Maravillas hay muchas, y ninguna es más maravillosa que el hombre; el poder que cruza el mar blanco, impulsado por el viento tempestuoso, abriéndose paso bajo olas que amenazan con engullirlo.

  Sófocles

  Power, Men, Wind

  Sophocles (1905). “Tragedies”

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• Not even Ares battles against necessity.

  Sófocles

  Batalla

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

  Sófocles

  Return, Born, Has Beens

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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.

  Sófocles

  Sight, Darkness, Deeds

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

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• Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

  Sófocles

  Gratitude, Giving, Birth

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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.

  Sófocles

  War, Fate, Ships

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

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• Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

  Sófocles

  Communication, Winning, Men

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• But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

  Sófocles

  Hombres, Enemigo

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• You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

  Sófocles

  Anger, Heart, Stones

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• It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

  Sófocles

  Happiness, Fate, Giving

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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• Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

  Sófocles

  Fortune, Tyranny, Humans

  Esquilo, Sófocles, Eurípides, Aristófanes, Menandro (de Atenas.) (1938). "El drama griego completo: todas las tragedias existentes de Esquilo, Sófocles y Eurípides, y las comedias de Aristófanes y Menandro, en diversas traducciones".

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• Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

  Sófocles

  País, Pensamiento, Importante

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• A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

  Sófocles

  Driven, Broads

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• The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

  Sófocles

  Learning, Men, Intuition

  Sófocles (1977). "El ciclo de Edipo: An English Version", Harcourt

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• No oath can be too binding for a lover.

  Sófocles

  Lovers, Oath, Binding

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 848,

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• How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

  Sófocles

  Sweet, Forget, Short Time

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• There is no greater evil than anarchy.

  Sófocles

  Evil, Anarchy, Anarchism

  Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (2016). “The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides”, p.301, Modern Library

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• From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

  Sófocles

  Men, Suffering, Has Beens

  Sophocles (2008). “Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra”, p.112, OUP Oxford

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• Porque Dios aborrece totalmente el rebuzno de las lenguas jactanciosas.

  Sófocles

  Hate, Arrogance, Tongue

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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• Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

  Sófocles

  Pain, Sleep, Mind

  Esquilo, Sófocles, Eurípides, Aristófanes, Menandro (de Atenas.) (1938). "El drama griego completo: todas las tragedias existentes de Esquilo, Sófocles y Eurípides, y las comedias de Aristófanes y Menandro, en diversas traducciones".

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• La verdad siempre es directa.

  Sófocles

  Truth, Truth Is, Straightforward

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• It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

  Sófocles

  Care, Deeds

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