Without labor nothing prospers.
SophoclesTags: work prosperity
The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.
...count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.
SophoclesHow dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.
Tags: oedipus-rex
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
SophoclesTags: classics destiny gods greek greece
Nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse.
SophoclesAh me! think, sister, how our father perished, amid hate and scorn, when sins bared by his own search had moved him to strike both eyes with self-blinding hand; then the mother wife, two names in one, with twisted noose did despite unto her life; and last, our two brothers in one day,-each shedding, hapless one, a kinsman's blood,-wrought out with mutual hands their common doom. And now we in turn-we two left all alone think how we shall perish, more miserably than all the rest, if, in defiance of the law, we brave a king's decree or his powers. Nay, we must remember, first, that we were born women, as who should not strive with men; next, that we are ruled of the stronger, so that we must obey in these things, and in things yet sorer. I, therefore, asking the Spirits Infernal to pardon, seeing that force is put on me herein, will hearken to our rulers. for 'tis witless to be over busy.
SophoclesI was born to join in love, not hate--that is my nature
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