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Sophocles

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


— Sophocles


#charge #know #silence #supports #you

God's dice always have a lucky roll.


— Sophocles


#dice #god #lucky #roll

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


— Sophocles


#dead #future #lost #neglects #past

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.


— Sophocles


#flung #good #hands #hold #ignorant

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.


— Sophocles


#any #wealth

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.


— Sophocles


#ever #impediment #treaty

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.


— Sophocles


#dies #mistrust #trust

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."


— Sophocles


#democracy #justice #keep #must #our

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.


— Sophocles


#become #cure #diseased #evils #man

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.


— Sophocles


#makes #men #nothing #pledge #reflection






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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