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Sophocles

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Evil counsel travels fast.


— Sophocles


#evil #fast #travels

Evil gains work their punishment.


— Sophocles


#gains #punishment #their #work

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.


— Sophocles


#shameful #taught

For the dead there are no more toils.


— Sophocles


#more #toils

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.


— Sophocles


#faring #just #just one #like #more

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.


— Sophocles


#becomes #educates #evil #mother #things

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.


— Sophocles


#both #brings #fares #fortune #future

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.


— Sophocles


#birth #gives #gratitude

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.


— Sophocles


#bad #friend #his #life #throws

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.


— Sophocles


#help #how #knowledge #truth






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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