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Sophocles

Read through the most famous quotes from Sophocles




Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.


— Sophocles


#hands #ignore #ill #judgment #lies

A man growing old becomes a child again.


— Sophocles


#again #becomes #child #growing #growing old

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.


— Sophocles


#noble #speech #stain

No lie ever reaches old age.


— Sophocles


#ever #lie #old #old age #reaches

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.


— Sophocles


#happiness #part #supreme

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.


— Sophocles


#goes #much #often #wisdom #words

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.


— Sophocles


#deed #going #ground #i #i see

Silence is an ornament for women.


— Sophocles


#silence #women

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.


— Sophocles


#gained #never #secure #things #through

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.


— Sophocles


#kindness






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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