“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
Quote by Sophocles
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Sophocles
Sophocles, born in 498 BC and died in 406 BC, was a renowned Greek tragic playwright. He is one of the three greatest tragic poets of ancient Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles' works profoundly revealed the complexity of human nature and social contradictions, exerting a profound influence on subsequent drama. more
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“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
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone
“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
Source: The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
Source: Oedipus the King
“I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.”
Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.”
Source: The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
“When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.”
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone
Source: Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes
“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