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Sophocles

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There is a time when even justice brings harm.


— Sophocles


#even #harm #justice #time

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.


— Sophocles


#ancient #bad #before #call #cannot

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.


— Sophocles


#evil #fortune #greater #greater evil #men

There is no greater evil than anarchy.


— Sophocles


#evil #greater #greater evil #than

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.


— Sophocles


#bad #hateful #more #nothing #than

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.


— Sophocles


#even #forgetfulness #miseries #pleasure #present

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.


— Sophocles


#gain #life #long #money #mortals

To him who is in fear everything rustles.


— Sophocles


#fear #him #who

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.


— Sophocles


#evil #gods #live #only #without

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.


— Sophocles


#chance #good #good man #man #never






About Sophocles

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Did you know about Sophocles?

His reputation was such that foreign rulers invited him to attend their courts although unlike Aeschylus who died in Sicily or Euripides who spent time in Macedon Sophocles never accepted any of these invitations. Sophocles mentions a third stage distinct from the other two in his discussion of his development. Most of Sophocles' plays show an undercurrent of early fatalism and the beginnings of Socratic logic as a mainstay for the long tradition of Greek tragedy.

The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays although each play was actually a part of a different tetralogy the other members of which are now lost. Aeschylus won 14 competitions and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles while Euripides won only 4 competitions.

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