Sophocles Quotes - Page 15

• True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

  Sófocles

  Lo peor

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.265, Sophocles

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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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  Mother, Dream, May

  Jocasta to Oedipus, her son and husband, before they both discover the truth of the prophecy. Oedipus Tyrannus, 979-83 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

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• For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

  Sófocles

  Hell, Hades

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• You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

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  Vida, Hombres, El Hombre

  Esquilo, Sófocles, Eurípides (1959). "Sófocles"

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• War loves to seek its victims in the young.

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  Love, War, Victim

  "Scyrii". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 507,

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• Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

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  Heart, Men, Stubbornness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.281, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

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  Winter, Yield, Rivers

  Haemon speaking. Antigone,712-14 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones,1994).

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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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  Fate, Evil, Enemy

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• A human being is only breath and shadow.

  Sófocles

  Shadow, Humans, Breaths

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• A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

  Sófocles

  Lows, Humans, Lifts

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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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  Men, Opposites, Cities

  Creon speaking. Antigone, 666-7 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones, 1994).

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• We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

  Sófocles

  Running, Evil, Goal

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.410

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• Una mente prudente puede ver espacio para el recelo, no sea que el que prospera sufra un día el revés.

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  Mind, Suffering, One Day

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Amontona grandes riquezas en tu casa, si quieres, y vive como un tirano, pero, si falta el disfrute de estas cosas, yo no compraría el resto ni por la sombra del humo en contra de la felicidad.

  Sófocles

  Tiranos, Casa, Deseo

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• Un hombre prudente no debe descuidar ninguna circunstancia.

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  Men, Prudent, Neglect

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• Adiós al sol que ya no brilla para mí.

  Sófocles

  Goodbye, Shining, Sun

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

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• Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.

  Sófocles

  Pensar

  "Antigone". Play by Sophocles, Line 706,

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• More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

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  Dirty, Men, Profit

  Esquilo, Sófocles, Eurípides (1959). "Sófocles"

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• Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

  Sófocles

  Proud, Birth, Dies

  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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• Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

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  Father, Opportunity, Giving

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”

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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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  Fire, Iron, Fragments

  BookCaps, Sophocles (2012). “Antigone In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

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  Yield, Fighter, Killing

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.86, Penguin

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• Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

  Sófocles

  Hecho, Sabe

  Sophocles (2016). “Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, p.246, Sophocles

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• Everything is ideal to its parent.

  Sófocles

  Family, Parent, Ideals

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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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  Arrogance, Madness, Turns

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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