Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
mother work evil
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
evil gains ill
Ill-gotten gains work evil.
worry anxiety
To him who is afraid, everything rustles.
enemy
An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.
future men waiting
What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
men enemy
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
hate grieving too-much
Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
uprising evil dying
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
kindness
Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.
happiness fate laughing
It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
friendship love-is
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
men looks fortune
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
liars firsts resolve
Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.
evil sailing fairs
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.