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Sophocles (Greek: Σοφοκλῆς; 496 – 406 BCE) was a Greek playwright, dramatist, priest, and politician of Classical Athens. He was also a general for the Athenian Empire in the Peloponnesian Wars, and during his service he led the battle against the Peloponnesian Island of Samos.[citation needed]

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ELECTRA: Oh but my love — now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love — ORESTES: What are you asking?

ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.

I was born to join in love, not hate — that is my nature

Oh love, you break on me like light!

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

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

You're in love with impossibility

يجب على المرء أن يقول ما هو حقيقي، وعندما يتحدث يمسك لسانه ولا ينطق أبداً بالضغائن، او يتهكم بطريقة لاذعة.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

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.

In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it