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Sophocles

Read through the most famous quotes from Sophocles




There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.


— Sophocles


#consideration #pride #thoughtfulness #men

It is my nature to join in love, not hate.


— Sophocles


#love

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.


— Sophocles


#phantoms #pity #life

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.


— Sophocles


#grieve #hate #much #nor #them

The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself.


— Sophocles


#leadership

Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes. Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.


— Sophocles


#art

Ne da sovražim – da ljubim, sem na svetu.


— Sophocles


#inspirational #life #love #inspirational

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.


— Sophocles


#indeed #sister #wickedness

A short saying often contains much wisdom.


— Sophocles


#much #often #saying #short #wisdom

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?


— Sophocles


#charge #know #silence #supports #you






About Sophocles

Sophocles Quotes




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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