Sophocles Quotes

How about your service of Aphrodite, Sophocles—is your natural force still unabated?" And he replied, 'Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master.

فإن من يتمتعون ببصيرة ثاقبة يشعرون بالخوف على الشخص الناجح، خشية أن يصيبه الأذى ذات يوم.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

he came to know the god intimately and the strange mad flower of his mind dripped in the dark

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare — I have no use for him, either.

دانایی گریز از تنهایی است.

Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.

Haemon: No city is property of a single man.
Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.
Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.

When he endures nothing but endless miseries — What pleasure is there in living the day after day,
Edging slowly back and forth toward death?
Anyone who warms their heart with the glow
Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.
The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

We begin in the dark
and birth is the death of us