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Sophocles

Read through the most famous quotes from Sophocles




You should not consider a man's age but his acts.


— Sophocles


#age #consider #his #man #should

A lie never lives to be old.


— Sophocles


#lives #never #old

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.


— Sophocles


#gifts #men #saying #true

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.


— Sophocles


#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives

Despair often breeds disease.


— Sophocles


#despair #disease #often

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.


— Sophocles


#good

Even a poor man can receive honors.


— Sophocles


#honors #man #poor #poor man #receive

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.


— Sophocles


#every #every man #far #man #near

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.


— Sophocles


#death #die #even #wants #worst

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.


— Sophocles


#kindness






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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