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
greek-poet man nature
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.
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
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For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
greek-poet
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
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Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
greek-poet
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
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Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'