Sophocles
Sophocles
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. Sophocles wrote 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
money antigone world
Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
taken two mind
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
order soul god-love
The gods love those of ordered soul.
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
punishment evil gains
Evil gains work their punishment.
kindness
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
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There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.