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Sophocles

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If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.


— Sophocles


#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.


— Sophocles


#done #endure #injustice #light #must

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.


— Sophocles


#kindness

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


— Sophocles


#conscience #dwells #powerful #terrible #us

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.


— Sophocles


#does #man #mind #sick #whose

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.


— Sophocles


#good #good man #help #man #misfortune

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?


— Sophocles


#mockery #our #sweetest

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


— Sophocles


#go #look #undetected #unsought #will

Better not to exist than live basely.


— Sophocles


#better #exist #live #than

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


— Sophocles


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






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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