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Sophocles Quotes (-496--405)
About Sophocles
Sophocles (Greek: ÎŁÎżÏÎżÎșλáżÏ; c. 497/496 â winter 406/405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.
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âFortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.â
âMoney! There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.â
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Sophocles on Time 4 quotes
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âFor whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.â
Sophocles on Cheating
âNo treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.â
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Matthew Arnold on Sophocles 2 quotes
âBe his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul From first youth tested up to extreme old age Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.â
Edmund Gosse on Sophocles
Thomas Babington Macaulay on Sophocles 3 quotes
âThe first part of the Ajax is prodigiously fine. I do not know that the agonies of wounded honour have ever been so sublimely represented... But the interest of the piece dies with Ajax. In the debates which follow, Sophocles does not succeed as well as Euripides would have done. The odes, too, are not very good.â
About Sophocles
Sophocles (Greek: ÎŁÎżÏÎżÎșλáżÏ; c. 497/496 â winter 406/405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.