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Sophocles

Read through the most famous quotes from Sophocles




Not even old age knows how to love death.


— Sophocles


#death #even #how #knows #love

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.


— Sophocles


#knowing #life #not knowing #sweetest

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.


— Sophocles


#born #past

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.


— Sophocles


#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.


— Sophocles


#dice #fall #luckily #zeus

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.


— Sophocles


#gods #good #highest #mankind #plant

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.


— Sophocles


#inscribe #oaths #water #woman

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.


— Sophocles


#alone #rewards #secure #virtue

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.


— Sophocles


#disease #free #man #me #poor

There is a point at which even justice does injury.


— Sophocles


#even #injury #justice #point #which






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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