“Twere best, if anything is best in evil times. What's soonest done, is best, when all is ill.”
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Famous Sophocles Quotes
Source: Electra
“I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon”
Source: Antigone
“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.”
Source: Sophocles: Fragments
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre
“The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.”
Source: Antigone
“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.”
“If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.”
Source: The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays
“Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?”
“It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.”
Source: Sophocles
“Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles
“All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”
“There is no greater evil than anarchy.”
Source: The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
“There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.”