ISMENE: How can I live alone, without her?
CREON: Her? Don't even mention her-- she no longer exists.
ISMENE: What? You'd kill your own son's bride?
CREON: Absolutely: there are other fields for him to plow.
Good advice, if there's any good in suffering. Quickest is best when trouble blocks the way.
SophoclesNo yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?
SophoclesTell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.
SophoclesWhatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.
SophoclesNever honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.
SophoclesHow terrible-- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!
SophoclesIt's perfect justice: natures like yours are hardest on themselves.
SophoclesThose who jump to conclusions may go wrong.
SophoclesThey see you and me: they know my pain's a fact, my revenge is empty breath.
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