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Sophocles

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“οὔκουν γέλως ἥδιστος εἰς ἐχθροὺς γελᾶν;”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 79 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
“ὡς ἡμέρα κλίνει τε κἀνάγει πάλιν ἅπαντα τἀνθρώπεια.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 131–132 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
“τῶν γὰρ μεγάλων ψυχῶν ἱεὶς οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοι· κατὰ δ᾿ ἄν τις ἐμοῦ τοιαῦτα λέγων οὐκ ἂν πείθοι. πρὸς γὰρ τὸν ἔχονθ᾿ ὁ φθόνος ἕρπει. καίτοι σμικροὶ μεγάλων χωρὶς σφαλερὸν πύργου ῥῦμα πέλονται.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 154–159 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
“γύναι, γυναιξὶ κόσμον ἡ σιγὴ φέρει.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 293 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
“ἀλλ᾿ ἢ καλῶς ζῆν ἢ καλῶς τεθνηκέναι τὸν εὐγενῆ χρή.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 479–480 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)
“τῆς ἀναγκαίας τύχης οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν μεῖζον ἀνθρώποις κακόν.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 485–486 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)
“χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾿ ἀεί· ὅτου δ᾿ ἀπορρεῖ μνῆστις εὖ πεπονθότος, οὐκ ἂν γένοιτ᾿ ἔθ᾿ οὗτος εὐγενὴς ἀνήρ.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 522–524 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)
“ὦ παῖ, γένοιο πατρὸς εὐτυχέστερος, τὰ δ᾿ ἄλλ᾿ ὁμοῖος· καὶ γένοι᾿ ἂν οὐ κακός.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 550–551 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896); Compare Lucius Accius: Virtuti sis par, dispar fortunis patris.
“ἐν τῷ φρονεῖν γὰρ μηδὲν ἥδιστος βίος.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 554 (Cassell's, 1907)
“ἐχθρῶν ἄδωρα δῶρα κοὐκ ὀνήσιμα.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 665 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
Also quoted by: Σοφοκλής (el)
“τέκνον, δορὶ βούλου κρατεῖν μέν, σὺν θεῷ δ᾿ ἀεὶ κρατεῖν.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 765 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
“ξυρεῖ γὰρ ἐν χρῷ.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 786 (Cassell's, 1907)
“πόνος πόνῳ πόνον φέρει.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 866 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
“οἱ γὰρ κακοὶ γνώμαισι τἀγάθ᾿ ἐν χεροῖν ἔχοντες οὐκ ἴσασι πρίν τις ἐκβάλῃ.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 964–965 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)
“θεοῖς τέθνηκεν οὗτος, οὐ κείνοισιν, οὔ.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 970 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
“ξὺν τῷ δικαίῳ γὰρ μέγ᾿ ἔξεστιν φρονεῖν.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1125 (Cassell's, 1907)
“ἦ πολλὰ βροτοῖς ἔστιν ἰδοῦσιν γνῶναι· πρὶν ἰδεῖν δ᾿ οὐδεὶς μάντις τῶν μελλόντων ὅ τι πράξει.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 1418–1420; closing lines (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
“δοκῶ μέν, οὐδὲν ῥῆμα σὺν κέρδει κακόν.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 61 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1894)
“καιρὸς γάρ, ὅσπερ ἀνδράσιν μέγιστος ἔργου παντός ἐστ᾿ ἐπιστάτης.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 75–76 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1894)
“θάρσει μοι, θάρσει, τέκνον. ἔτι μέγας οὐρανῷ Ζεύς, ὃς ἐφορᾷ πάντα καὶ κρατύνει.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 173–175 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1894)
“μήθ᾿ οἷς ἐχθαίρεις ὑπεράχθεο μήτ᾿ ἐπιλάθου.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 177 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1894)
“χρόνος γὰρ εὐμαρὴς θεός.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 179 (Cassell's, 1907)
“πολλά τοι σμικροὶ λόγοι ἔσφηλαν ἤδη καὶ κατώρθωσαν βροτούς.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 415–416 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1894)
“ζῆν αἰσχρὸν αἰσχρῶς τοῖς καλῶς πεφυκόσιν.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 989 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1894)
“οὐ γὰρ θανεῖν ἔχθιστον, ἀλλ᾿ ὅταν θανεῖν χρῄζων τις εἶτα μηδὲ τοῦτ᾿ ἔχῃ λαβεῖν.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 1007–1008 (Bartlett's, 9th ed., 1892)
“ᾧ μή ᾿στι δρῶντι τάρβος, οὐδ᾿ ἔπος φοβεῖ.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 296 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1893)
“φεῦ φεῦ, φρονεῖν ὡς δεινὸν ἔνθα μὴ τέλη λύῃ φρονοῦντι.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 316–317 (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1949)
“ἐγὼ οὔτ᾿ ἐμαυτὸν οὔτε σ᾿ ἀλγυνῶ. τί ταῦτ᾿ ἄλλως ἐλέγχεις; οὐ γὰρ ἂν πύθοιό μου.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 332–333 (tr. Gilbert Murray, 1911)
“ὦ κακῶν κάκιστε.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 334 (Cassell's, 1907); also Philoctetes, l. 984.
“χρόνος δίκαιον ἄνδρα δείκνυσιν μόνος, κακὸν δὲ κἂν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ γνοίης μιᾷ.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 614–615 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1893)
“φρονεῖν γὰρ οἱ ταχεῖς οὐκ ἀσφαλεῖς.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 617 (Cassell's, 1907)
“ὕβρις φυτεύει τύραννον· ὕβρις, εἰ πολλῶν ὑπερπλησθῇ μάταν, ἃ μὴ ᾿πίκαιρα μηδὲ συμφέροντα, ἀκρότατα γεῖσ᾿ ἀναβᾶσ᾿ ἀπότομον ὤρουσεν εἰς ἀνάγκαν ἔνθ᾿ οὐ ποδὶ χρησίμῳ χρῆται.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 873–879 (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1949)
“ἔννους τὰ καινὰ τοῖς πάλαι τεκμαίρεται.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 916 (Cassell's, 1907)
“τί δ᾿ ἂν φοβοῖτ᾿ ἄνθρωπος ᾧ τὰ τῆς τύχης κρατεῖ, πρόνοια δ᾿ ἐστὶν οὐδενὸς σαφής; εἰκῆ κράτιστον ζῆν, ὅπως δύναιτό τις.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 977–979 (tr. E. F. Watling, 1947)
“ἐγὼ δ᾿ ἐμαυτὸν παῖδα τῆς Τύχης νέμων τῆς εὖ διδούσης οὐκ ἀτιμασθήσομαι. τῆς γὰρ πέφυκα μητρός· οἱ δὲ συγγενεῖς μῆνές με μικρὸν καὶ μέγαν διώρισαν. τοιόσδε δ᾿ ἐκφὺς οὐκ ἂν ἐξέλθοιμ᾿ ἔτι ποτ᾿ ἄλλος, ὥστε μὴ ᾿κμαθεῖν τοὐμὸν γένος.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1080–1085 (tr. E. F. Watling, 1947)
“τῶν δὲ πημονῶν μάλιστα λυποῦσ᾿ αἳ φανῶσ᾿ αὐθαίρετοι.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1230–1231, (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1949)
“πάντα γὰρ καιρῷ καλά.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1516 (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1949)
“ὥστε θνητὸν ὄντ᾿ ἐκείνην τὴν τελευταίαν ἔδει ἡμέραν ἐπισκοποῦντα μηδέν᾿ ὀλβίζειν, πρὶν ἂν τέρμα τοῦ βίου περάσῃ μηδὲν ἀλγεινὸν παθών.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 1528–1530 (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1949)
“Ζεὺς γὰρ μεγάλης γλώσσης κόμπους ὑπερεχθαίρει.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 127–128 (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1938)
“τὰ μὲν δὴ πόλεος ἀσφαλῶς θεοὶ πολλῷ σάλῳ σείσαντες ὤρθωσαν πάλιν.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 162–163 (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1938)
“ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὅστις πᾶσαν εὐθύνων πόλιν μὴ τῶν ἀρίστων ἅπτεται βουλευμάτων, ἀλλ᾿ ἐκ φόβου του γλῶσσαν ἐγκλῄσας ἔχει, κάκιστος εἶναι νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι δοκεῖ· καὶ μείζον᾿ ὅστις ἀντὶ τῆς αὑτοῦ πάτρας φίλον νομίζει, τοῦτον οὐδαμοῦ λέγω.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 178–183 (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1938)
“στέργει γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἄγγελον κακῶν ἐπῶν.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 277 (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1938); cf. "Don’t shoot the messenger.
“οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀνθρώποισιν οἷον ἄργυρος κακὸν νόμισμ᾿ ἔβλαστε. τοῦτο καὶ πόλεις πορθεῖ, τόδ᾿ ἄνδρας ἐξανίστησιν δόμων· τόδ᾿ ἐκδιδάσκει καὶ παραλλάσσει φρένας χρηστὰς πρὸς αἰσχρὰ πράγμαθ᾿ ἵστασθαι βροτῶν· πανουργίας δ᾿ ἔδειξεν ἀνθρώποις ἔχειν καὶ παντὸς ἔργου δυσσέβειαν εἰδέναι. ὅσοι δὲ μισθαρνοῦντες ἤνυσαν τάδε, χρόνῳ ποτ᾿ ἐξέπραξαν ὡς δοῦναι δίκην.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 295-303 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1893)
“ἵν᾿ εἰδότες ἔνθεν οἰστέον τὸ λοιπὸν ἁρπάζητε, καὶ μάθηθ᾿ ὅτι οὐκ ἐξ ἅπαντος δεῖ τὸ κερδαίνειν φιλεῖν. ἐκ τῶν γὰρ αἰσχρῶν λημμάτων τοὺς πλείονας ἀτωμένους ἴδοις ἂν ἢ σεσωμένους.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 310-314 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1893)
“τὰ δειλὰ κέρδη πημονὰς ἐργάζεται.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 326 (Cassell's, 1907)
“πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀν- θρώπου δεινότερον πέλει.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 332–333 (tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1938)
“τὸ μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐκ κακῶν πεφευγέναι ἥδιστον, ἐς κακὸν δὲ τοὺς φίλους ἄγειν ἀλγεινόν.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“ΚΡ. καὶ δῆτ᾿ ἐτόλμας τούσδ᾿ ὑπερβαίνειν νόμους; ΑΝ. οὐ γάρ τί μοι Ζεὺς ἦν ὁ κηρύξας τάδε, οὐδ᾿ ἡ ξύνοικος τῶν κάτω θεῶν Δίκη τοιούσδ᾿ ἐν ἀνθρώποισιν ὥρισεν νόμους, οὐδὲ σθένειν τοσοῦτον ᾠόμην τὰ σὰ κηρύγμαθ᾿ ὥστ᾿ ἄγραπτα κἀσφαλῆ θεῶν νόμιμα δύνασθαι θνητά γ᾿ ὄνθ᾿ ὑπερδραμεῖν. οὐ γάρ τι νῦν γε κἀχθές, ἀλλ᾿ ἀεί ποτε ζῇ ταῦτα, κοὐδεὶς οἶδεν ἐξ ὅτου ᾿φάνη.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“: And thou didst indeed dare to transgress that law? : Yes; for it was not Zeus that had published me that edict; not such are the laws set among men by the justice who dwells with the gods below; nor deemed I that thy decrees were of such force, that a mortal could override the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven. For their life is not of to-day or yesterday, but from all time, and no man knows when they were first put forth.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 449–457 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1893)
“ὅστις γὰρ ἐν πολλοῖσιν ὡς ἐγὼ κακοῖς ζῇ, πῶς ὅδ᾽ οὐχὶ κατθανὼν κέρδος φέρει;”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 463–464 (tr. Plumptre, 1865, 1878)