Quotes from Sophocles

I know I please where I must please the most.

Blest, they are the truly blest who all their lives have never tasted devastation.

Evil gains work their punishment.

Destiny guide me always Destiny find me filled with reverence pure in word and deed.

And whoever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing: I have no use for him. Zeus my witness, Zeus who sees all things

Pride breeds the tyrant violent pride, gorging, crammed to bursting with all that is overripe and rich with ruin— clawing up to the heights, headlong pride

crashes down the abyss—sheer doom! No footing helps, all foothold lost and gone.

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Wonders are many ... but none is more wonderful than man

But if any man comes striding, high and mighty in all he says and does, no fear of justice, no reverence for the temples of the gods— let a rough doom tear him down, repay his pride, breakneck, ruinous pride!

If he cannot reap his profits fairly cannot restrain himself from outrage— mad, laying hands on the holy things untouchable!

A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.

Can such a man, so desperate, still boast he can save his life from the flashing bolts of god? If all such violence goes with honor now why join the sacred dance?

They are dying, the old oracles sent to Laius, now our masters strike them off the rolls. Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now— the gods, the gods go down.

Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now— the gods, the gods go down.

Look at us, passengers in the grip of fear, watching the pilot of the vessel go to pieces.

In a just cause, the weak overcome the strong".

Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out.

It's little I ask for, and still less I get, yet it is enough for me.

A light tip of the scales can put old bones to rest.

Acceptance—that is the great lesson suffering teaches, suffering and the long years . . .

What should a man fear? It's all chance, chance rules our lives.

Live, Oedipus, as if there's no tomorrow!

To never have been born would be the greatests boon of all !