Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
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Famous Sophocles Quotes
“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist”
“And if you think I've acted foolishly, maybe I'm being charged with folly by a fool.”
Source: Antigone
“Wise words; but O, when wisdom brings no profit, To be wise is to suffer.”
Source: Oedipus Rex
Source: Antigone
Source: Ajax
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre
“The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.”
“Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.”
Source: Dramas of Sophocles
“It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.”
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone
“Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.”
Source: The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Source: The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.”
Source: The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald