Oh love, you break on me like light! - Sophocles

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Oh love, you break on me like light!

Sophocles

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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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Native Name: Σοφοκλῆς

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Euripides Aeschylus William Shakespeare Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Schiller

Additional quotes by Sophocles

Those who jump to conclusions may go wrong.

I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards — all that your can do is to have me killed.

στέργειν δέ τάκπεσόντα καί θέσθαι πρέπει σοφόν κυβευτήν, ’αλλά μη στένειν τύχην