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“When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.”

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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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“When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.”

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Source: Sophocles: Fragments

“No oath can be too binding for a lover.”

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“Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.”

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Book:Antigone

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“Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.”

Men Should Wells May Source Gains Ill Ruins

Book:The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)

“A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.”

Should Mind Suffering Rooms One Day Reverse Prudent Misgivings

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“They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.”

Wise Buffets Against Love

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“Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.”

Men Gains Ruins

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“One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.”

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Author:Sophocles