“I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon”
Source: Antigone
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“May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene”
Source: Antigone
“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
Source: Antigone
“The doom reserved for enemies marches on the ones we love the most.”
Source: Antigone
“Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“Leave me to my own absurdity.”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“I say that this crime is holy.”
Source: Antigone
“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“Ungeheuer ist vieles, doch nichts ist ungeheurer als der Mensch.”
“Your heart beats hotly for chilling work!”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“It is my nature to join in love, not hate.”
Source: Antigone
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
Source: The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
“A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
Source: Sophocles
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“Reason is God's crowning gift to man.”
Source: The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone
“It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.”
Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.”
Source: Sophocles: The Theban Plays
Source: The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.”
Source: The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald