Sophocles Quotes

“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:wisdom

“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:reason sadness wrong

“The workings of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:darkness virtue

“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, Is no less ominous than excessive grief.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:silence grief

“It may be thou art right: Unnatural silence signifies no good.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:silence wrong

“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:sorrow

“To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:fate fight

“A State for one man is no State at all.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:democracy tyranny

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