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Sophocles

Read through the most famous quotes from Sophocles




Children are the anchors of a mother's life.


— Sophocles


#anchors #children #life #mother

Success is dependent on effort.


— Sophocles


#dependent #effort #success is

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.


— Sophocles


#does #knife #mutter #needs #over

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.


— Sophocles


#man #state

A human being is only breath and shadow.


— Sophocles


#breath #human #human being #only #shadow

A fearful man is always hearing things.


— Sophocles


#fearful #hearing #man #things

There is no success without hardship.


— Sophocles


#success #without

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.


— Sophocles


#does #his #leaves #man #nature

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.


— Sophocles


#bear #child #directs #heaven #mighty

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.


— Sophocles


#bad #bad man #day #discern #just






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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