“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
Author detail
Sophocles (circa. 496 BCE - 406 BCE) was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Sophocles wrote 120 or more plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form, namely Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-awarded playwright in the dramatic competitions of ancient Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. Sophocles competed in around thirty drama competitions; he won perhaps twenty four and never received lower than second place. Aeschylus won fourteen competitions and was defeated by Sophocles at times. Euripides won only four competitions.
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“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
“A lie never grows old.”
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“Al' dobro znaj, da neće više mnogoput Projurit sunce u svom trku hitrome, A ti ćeš sam od svoje krvi vratiti Mrtvaca jednog mrtvima za odmjenu. Ti živu dušu vrže s gornjeg svijeta nam U donj...”
“Ta ne proglasi meni valj'da ovo Zeus, Nit Pravda, vjerna druga donjih bogova, Ovakvih zakona ti ljudma postavi; Nit tvoj je, mišljah, proglas taj toliko jak, Te ti ko smrtnik dići bi se moga...”
“S takva djela dika mi je mrijet, Jer draga do njeg - do dragog ću u grob leć, Učiniv sveti grijeh. Ta dulje sviđat se Ja svijetu moram onom negol' ovome, Jer ondje dovijek ću počivat. Sviđa...”
“The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength”
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“Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?”
“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist”
“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”
“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”
“Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.”
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“Those swift to think are not always secure.”
“Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!”
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“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.”
“There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.”
“Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?”
“Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.”
“There is no greater evil than anarchy.”
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”