Sophocles

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The Literature Page A short saying oft contains much wisdom. Sophocles Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. Sophocles Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. SophoclesOne word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. SophoclesWhat you cannot enforce, do not command. SophoclesNo man loves life like him that's growing old. Sophocles, AcrisiusTo him who is in fear everything rustles. Sophocles, AcrisiusIt is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. Sophocles, AjaxMen of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it. Sophocles, AjaxOf all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. Sophocles, AjaxFor God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues. Sophocles, Antigone Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. Sophocles, Antigone How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! Sophocles, AntigoneI have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either. Sophocles, AntigoneMoney: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. Sophocles, Antigone Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. Sophocles, AntigoneNumberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man. Sophocles, AntigoneReason is God's crowning gift to man. Sophocles, AntigoneShow me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority. Sophocles, AntigoneThe 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. Sophocles, AntigoneThere is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise. Sophocles, AntigoneWisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles, Antigone Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. Sophocles, Creusa Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. Sophocles, ElectraDeath is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it. Sophocles, Electra The end excuses any evil. Sophocles, Electra (c.409 BC) It made our hair stand up in panic fear. Sophocles, Oedipus at ColonusOne word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love. Sophocles, Oedipus at ColonusStranger in a strange country. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

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