Share this page: Woman, silence makes a woman beautiful. -- Ajax, line 293 My son, may you prove happier than your father. -- Ajax, line 550 Of wonders there are many, but none more wonderful than man. -- Antigone, line 333 Love, invincible in battle. -- Antigone, line 781 Death is not the greatest of ills; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to. -- Electra, line 1007 Not to be born is, past all prizing, best. -- Oedipus Coloneus, line 1225 You are blind in your ears and mind as well as in your eyes. -- Oedipus Tyrannus, line 370 When I do not understand, I like to say nothing. -- Oedipus Tyrannus, line 569 So do not fear this marriage with your mother; Many a man has suffered this before -- But only in his dreams. -- Oedipus Tyrannus, line 977 Quotes about Sophocles Sophocles said that he portrayed men as they ought to be, but Euripides portrayed them as they are. -- Aristotle, Poetics, 25 Someone asked Sophocles: 'How is your sex life now? Are you still able to have a woman?' He repllied: 'Hush, man; most gladly indeed am I rid of it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.' -- Plato, Republic, Book 1, 329b Share this page:

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