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Sophocles

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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?


— Sophocles


#bloated #ever #excellence #house #luxury

When trouble ends even troubles please.


— Sophocles


#even #please #trouble #troubles

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.


— Sophocles


#amid #angry #applies #disease #grows

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?


— Sophocles


#dying #evils #gain #how #i

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.


— Sophocles


#alone #empty #men #mind #others

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.


— Sophocles


#better #fares #friend #how #kindness

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.


— Sophocles


#prevail #thinkers #wise

You win the victory when you yield to friends.


— Sophocles


#victory #win #yield #you

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.


— Sophocles


#deeds #illustrious #life #make #more

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.


— Sophocles


#even #fail #honor #i #prefer






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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