Quotes from Sophocles

Now don't, please, be quite so single-minded, self-involved, or assume the world is wrong and you are right. Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too... such men, I tell you, spread them open-you will find them empty.

The mighty words of the proud are paid in full with mighty blows of fate, and at long last those blows will teach us wisdom.

Ale ja som priÅ¡la na svet milovaÃ…Â¥, nie nenávidieÃ…Â¥!

This way, O come! The angel of the dead, Hermes, and veiled Persephone lead me on!

Tu peux manquer de foi à d'autres, avec moi sois toujours vrai.

DoÄŸru davran?p davranmad???n? tekrar bir düÅŸün istersen, çünkü en iyi seçenek korkuya neden olmayand?r.s.34

You blame my temper but you do not see your own that lives within you; so you chide me instead." - Oedipus the King

O gra?ani otadžbine Tebe, evo Edipa, znalca ?udesne zagonetke i prvog ?oveka, ?iju sre?u niko nije gledao bez zavisti! Gledajte u kakav ponor sudbe grozne pade on! Zato nikog, dan dok onaj poslednji ne do?eka, ne?u proslavljati kao sre?na, pre no doplovi kraju veka svog a nikakav ne pogodi ga jad.

S takva djela dika mi je mrijet, Jer draga do njeg - do dragog ?u u grob le?, U?iniv sveti grijeh. Ta dulje svi?at se Ja svijetu moram onom negol' ovome, Jer ondje dovijek ?u po?ivat. Svi?a l' se Onako tebi, zakon božji pogazi!

inside me I'm dying

No nací para compartir odio sino amor

vengeance no one outruns

Nada, bludnica velika, mnogim ljudima pomaže, a mnogim je dim nestalnih, praznih želja; ne znadu što im gamiže, dok žarki oganj noge im ne oprži. Slavljenu re? pametno neko izusti: kad u jad koga baci bog, on za zlo to ne uzima, no dobra traži u tome; a kratak trenut boravi izvan jada.

OD.: Son of a valiant sire, I, too, in youth, Had once a slow tongue and an active hand. But since I have proved the world, I clearly see Words and not deeds give mastery over men.

PHI.: All winds are fair to him who flies from woe.

Niet om te haten, maar om lief te hebben ben ik op de wereld gekomen.

Nada temo, pues mantengo la verdad, que es poderosa.

È impossibile conoscere a fondo anima, pensiero, intendimento di un uomo, prima che abbia dato pubblica prova di sé nell'esercizio del potere, secondo le leggi.

Money! Nothing worse in our lives, so current, rampant, so corrupting. Money—you demolish cities, root men from their homes, you train and twist good minds and set them on to the most atrocious schemes. No limit, you make them adept at every kind of outrage, every godless crime—money!

Not to be born at all Is best, far best that can befall, Next best, when born, with least delay. To trace the backward way.

ÖDIPUS. Nun denn, von neuem werd ich, abermals, das Dunkel lichten.

Ungeheuer ist vieles, doch nichts ist ungeheurer als der Mensch.

Vossa existência, frágeis mortais, é aos meus olhos menos que nada. Felicidade só conheceis imaginada; vossa ilusão logo é seguida pela desdita.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.