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Sophocles

Read through the most famous quotes from Sophocles




It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.


— Sophocles


#terrible #well #wrong

Always desire to learn something useful.


— Sophocles


#always #desire #learn #something #useful

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.


— Sophocles


#terrible #terrible thing #thing #well #wrong

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.


— Sophocles


#noble #speak

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.


— Sophocles


#constituted #man #pleasure #same #take

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.


— Sophocles


#end #event #him #know #many

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.


— Sophocles


#bearer #loves #man #tidings

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.


— Sophocles


#evil #unwillingly #who

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.


— Sophocles


#better #concealed #discovered #many #things

Not even Ares battles against necessity.


— Sophocles


#battles #even #necessity






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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