Browsing Quotes With Tag: oedipus-rex (14)
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“Then learn that mortal man must always look to his ending,
and none can be called happy until that day when he carries
His happiness down to the grave in peace.” ChorusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“My eyes, I cannot bear
What most I long to see;
And what I long to hear,
That most I dread.” OedipusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Show me the man whose happiness was anything more than illusion
Followed by disillusion.” ChorusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Born thus, I ask to be no other man
Than that I am, and will know who I am.” OedipusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear?
Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown.
Best live as best we may, from day to day.” JocastaSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Pride breeds the Tyrant; swollen with ill-found booty,
From castled height Pride tumbles to the pit,
All footing lost…” ChorusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“On me is the curse that none but I have laid.” Oedipus
Speaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…Time will teach
The truth of this; for time alone can prove
The honest man; one day proclaims the sinner.” CreonSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Cast out an honest friend, and you cast out
Your life, your dearest treasure…” CreonSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…To slur a good man’s name
With baseless slander is one crime – another
Is rashly to mistake bad men for good.” CreonSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.” Teiresias
Speaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“King though you are, one right –
To answer – makes us equal; and I claim it.” TeiresiasSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Wise words; but O, when wisdom brings no profit,
To be wise is to suffer…” TeiresiasSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…experience of trials past gives strength
to present counsel….” PriestSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!