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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Sophocles
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.”
“How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!”
“Sentry: King, may I speak? Creon: Your very voice distresses me. Sentry: Are you sure that it is my voice, and not your conscience? Creon: By God, he wants to analyze me now! Sentry: It is not what I say, but what has been done, that hurts you. Creon: You talk too much.”
“And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.”
“Your edict, King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself against The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were, and shall be, Operative for ever, beyond man utterly. I knew I must die, even without your decree: I am only mortal. And if I must die Now, before it is my time to die, Surely this is no hardship: can anyone Living, as I live, with evil all about me, Think Death less than a friend?”
“One soul is enough, I know, to pay the debt for thousands, if one will go to the gods in all good faith.”
“You'll never find a man on Earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.”
“The dead alone feel no pain.”
“It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.”
“Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly.”
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