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Famous Sophocles Quotes
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.”
Source: The Complete Plays of Sophocles
“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.”
“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
Source: The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
“Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.”