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Sophocles

Read through the most famous quotes from Sophocles




Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.


— Sophocles


#dies #mistrust #trust

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.


— Sophocles


#dead #future #lost #neglects #past

A short saying often contains much wisdom.


— Sophocles


#much #often #saying #short #wisdom

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.


— Sophocles


#hears #hide #nothing #sees #time

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.


— Sophocles


#any #better #friend #how #kindness

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.


— Sophocles


#life #love #one word #pain #us

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.


— Sophocles


#bad #bad man #day #discern #just

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.


— Sophocles


#doing #doing good #glorious #good #good deeds

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.


— Sophocles


#go #look #undetected #unsought #will

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.


— Sophocles


#conscience #dwells #powerful #terrible #us






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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