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Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tempts and deludes the — Sophocles, Antigone
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. — Sophocles
May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene — Sophocles, Antigone
May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban — Sophocles
I am determined that never, if I can help it,Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon — Sophocles, Antigone
Evil gains work their punishment. — Sophocles, Fragments
To speak much is one thing — to speak to the point another!
Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong. — Sophocles, Antigone
TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgott — Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies
TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.Do you know who — Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies
JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God discovers need of, — Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies
OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I wh — Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies
Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes — Anne Carson, Antigonick
CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most ma — Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies
TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of,indicting him in th — Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies
OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out hi — Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies
Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail the golden dawn over — Sophocles, Antigone
There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." - Sentry — Sophocles, Antigone
Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who — Sophocles, Oedipus Rex